esahubble_heic0805g February 12th, 2008
Credit: NASA; ESA; L. Bradley (Johns Hopkins University); R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz); H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University); and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
The distant galaxy, dubbed A1689-zD1, appears as a whitish blob in the Spitzer IRAC close-up view. The galaxy is brimming with star birth. Hubble and Spitzer worked together to show that it is one of the youngest and likely the most distant galaxies ever discovered. Astronomers estimate that the galaxy is 13 billion light-years away. Abell 1689 is 2.2 billion light-years away.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0805g/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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