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Astronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance Record
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Astronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance Record

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the farthest spectroscopically confirmed galaxy observed to date (inset). It was identified in this Hubble image of a field of galaxies in the CANDELS survey (Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey). NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope also observed the unique galaxy. The W. M. Keck Observatory was used to obtain a spectroscopic redshift (z=7.7), extending the previous redshift record.

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Credit lineAstronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance Record. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000731.
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