Hubble finds a new contender for galaxy distance record
esahubble_heic1103b January 26th, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz, and Leiden University) and the HUDF09 Team
Astronomers have used Hubble to spot what they think is the furthest and one of the very earliest galaxies ever seen in the Universe. Candidate galaxy UDFj-39546284 appears as a faint red blob in this part of an ultra deep field exposure taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This is the deepest infrared image taken of the Universe. Based on the objects colour, astronomers believe that its light has taken 13.2 billion years to reach us. Spectroscopic confirmation that this is indeed the most distant galaxy ever seen is expected to come from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, which is planned for launch later this decade.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1103b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic1103b
- Subject Category
- D.5 D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Hubble Ultra Deep Field, UDFj-39546284
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz, and Leiden University) and the HUDF09 Team
- Release Date
- 2011-01-26T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1103b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Redshift distance to galaxy UDFj-39546284.
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- H, J, Y
- Central Wavelength
- 1600, 1250, 1050
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 53.1647555644, -27.7745527608
- Reference Dimension
- 885.0, 877.0
- Reference Pixel
- 442.5, 438.5
- Scale
- -3.0483028325e-06, 3.0483028325e-06
- Rotation
- 50.780000000000058
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1103b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1103b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:40:58.698853
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
