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Imagen de campo CANDELS del Hubble con Galaxy z8_GND_5296
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope CANDELS survey highlights the most distant galaxy in the universe with a definitively measured distance, dubbed z8_GND_5296. The galaxy's red color alerted astronomers that it was likely extremely far away, and thus seen at an early time...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2013
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
- ID de archivo
- hubblesite-images-2013-39-3242-image
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope CANDELS survey highlights the most distant galaxy in the universe with a definitively measured distance, dubbed z8_GND_5296. The galaxy's red color alerted astronomers that it was likely extremely far away, and thus seen at an early time after the Big Bang. A team of astronomers measured the exact distance using the Keck I telescope with the new MOSFIRE spectrograph. They found that this galaxy is seen at about 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age of 13.8 billion years.
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NASA, ESA, V. Tilvi (Texas A&M University), S. Finkelstein (University of Texas, Austin), and C. Papovich (Texas A&M University)Detalles de la imagen
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | z8_GND_5296, CANDELS/GOODS-N field |
| R.A. Position | 12h 36m 37.9s |
| Dec. Position | 62° 18' 8.49" |
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