ALMA Finds Most-Distant Oxygen in the Universe

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Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, W. Zheng (JHU), M. Postman (STScI), the CLASH Team, Hashimoto et al.

This image shows the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the inset image is the galaxy MACS1149-JD1 located 13.28 billion light-years away observed with ALMA. Here, the oxygen distribution detected with ALMA is depicted in green.

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Image Type
Collage
Object Name
MACS J1149.5+2223 MACS1149-JD1
Subject - Distant Universe
Galaxy

Distance

Universescale3
13,280,000,000 light years
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Gallery_ALMA-HST_MACS1149-JD_screen_preview
Subject Category
D.5  
Subject Name
MACS J1149.5+2223, MACS1149-JD1
Credits
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, W. Zheng (JHU), M. Postman (STScI), the CLASH Team, Hashimoto et al.
Release Date
Lightyears
13.28E+9
Redshift
13.28E+9
Reference Url
/image/nrao/Gallery_ALMA-HST_MACS1149-JD_screen_preview
Type
Collage
Image Quality
Good
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Equinox
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Creator (Curator)
NRAO/AUI/NSF
URL
https://public.nrao.edu
Name
NRAO/AUI/NSF
Email
outreach@nrao.edu
Telephone
Address
520 Edgemont Road
City
Charlottesville
State/Province
Virginia
Publisher
NRAO/AUI/NSF
Publisher ID
nrao
Resource ID
Metadata Date
2018-05-23T11:02:27-04:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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