Spiral Galaxy NGC 1309

About the colours

This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the ACS/WFC instrument. Several filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image as follows: Blue: F435W (B) Green: F555W (V) Red: F814W (I)

About the data

Hubble data for this release were obtained from the following proposals: 10497 , 10802 , 11570 , and 12880: A. Riess (JHU/STScI) et al. 10711 : K. Noll (NASA/GSFC) et al. 12913 : S. Jha (Rutgers University) et al.

The science team comprises: C. McCully and S. Jha (Rutgers University), R. Foley (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), L. Bildsten (University of California, Santa Barbara/ Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) W.-f. Fong and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian/CfA), G. Marion (University of Texas, Austin and Harvard-Smithsonian/CfA), A. Riess (JHU/STScI) and M. Stritzinger (Aarhus University, Denmark).