File:Distant galaxy GN-z11 in GOODS-N image by HST.jpg
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Nederlands: Sterrenstelsel GN-z11
Ελληνικά: Ο Γαλαξίας GN-z11
English: Hubble Space Telescope astronomers, studying the northern hemisphere field from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), have measured the distance to the farthest galaxy ever seen. The survey field contains tens of thousands of galaxies stretching far back into time. Galaxy GN-z11, shown in the inset, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the big bang, when the universe was only three percent of its current age. The galaxy is ablaze with bright, young, blue stars, but looks red in this image because its light has been stretched to longer spectral wavelengths by the expansion of the universe.
Français : Les astronomes du télescope spatial Hubble, qui étudient le champ de l'hémisphère nord depuis le Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), ont mesuré la distance jusqu'à la galaxie la plus éloignée jamais vue. Le champ d'investigation contient des dizaines de milliers de galaxies s'étendant loin dans le temps. La galaxie GN-z11, montrée dans l'encart, est vue comme elle était il y a 13,4 milliards d'années, soit à peine 400 millions d'années après le Big Bang, lorsque l'univers avait seulement trois pour cent de son âge actuel. La galaxie est bordée de jeunes et brillantes étoiles bleues, mais qui semblent rouge dans cette image car la longueur d'onde spectrale de leur lumière a été étirée par l'expansion de l'univers. |
| Date | 11 February 2015 and 3 April 2015 |
| Source | https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2016/news-2016-07.html; see also https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-team-breaks-cosmic-distance-record/ and http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1604a/ |
| Author | NASA, ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag. |
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