Our #HubbleTopImage weighs up the COSMOS field ⚖️⁠ ⁠ This image shows the (mostly dark) matter distribution in the COSMOS field, created from data taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes. It was inferred from ‘weak’ gravitational lensing distortions imprinted onto the shapes of background galaxies.⁠ ⁠ The study of over 446,000 galaxies within the COSMOS field involved Hubble photographing hundreds of overlapping views of the same part of the Universe over nearly 1000 hours of observations!⁠ ⁠ For more information check the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷 NASA, ESA, P. Simon (University of Bonn) and T. Schrabback (Leiden Observatory)⁠ ⁠ #ESA #Hubble⁠