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August 11, 2008 News and Updates

The two-square-degree COSMOS field (centered at RA=10:00:28.6 and DEC=+02:12:21.0) as seen by the VLA deep survey. The 2,901 sources from the recently released VLA deep survey catalog are overlaid in green.
IRSA announces the release of several new datasets for the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). These are version 2.5 of the NICMOS parallel observation images, version 1.0 of the VLA deep survey image, version 2.0 of the VLA large survey catalog, and version 1.0 of the VLA deep survey catalog.

July 29, 2008 Featured Image

Sky coverage in Galactic coordinates of IRSA's image sets, excluding the large-area/all-sky surveys 2MASS, DENIS, IRAS, and USNO-B. The zoomed-in image shows the color mapping (upper right) of the main figure, grey representing one coverage and dark pink representing eight. The inset in the lower right of the zoomed-in figure shows the 2MASS Extended Mission image coverage (not included in the main image), where areas of higher coverage are shown in darker, bluer colors. Regions of special astrophysical interest on the main figure are marked.