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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Collection
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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Collection
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World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Discover Farthest Galaxy in the Universe
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World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Discover Farthest Galaxy in the Universe
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CL1358 62
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CL1358 62
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*Credit:* Marijn Franx (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
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*Credit:* Marijn Franx (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/] Acknowledgement
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*Image Type:*: Astronomical/Illustr ation
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*Image Type:*: Astronomical/Illustr ation
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*Release Date*:July 30, 1997 12:00 AM (EDT)
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*Release Date*:July 30, 1997 12:00 AM (EDT)
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*Title*:World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Discover Farthest Galaxy in the Universe
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*Title*:World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Discover Farthest Galaxy in the Universe
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-1997-25b
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-1997-25b
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*Description*:
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster CL1358+62 has uncovered a gravitationally-lens ed image of a more distant galaxy located far beyond the cluster. The gravitationally-lens ed image appears as a red crescent to the lower right of center. The galaxy's image is brightened, magnified, and smeared into an arc-shape by the gravitational influence of the intervening galaxy cluster, which acts like a gigantic lens.
Exact measurement of the distance from spectroscopic observations with the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii show the lensed galaxy is the farthest ever seen. Its light is only reaching us now from a time when the universe was but 7% its current age of approximately 14 billion years. This places the young galaxy as far as 13 billion light-years away. The lensing foreground cluster is 5 billion light-years from us.
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*Description*:
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster CL1358+62 has uncovered a gravitationally-lens ed image of a more distant galaxy located far beyond the cluster. The gravitationally-lens ed image appears as a red crescent to the lower right of center. The galaxy's image is brightened, magnified, and smeared into an arc-shape by the gravitational influence of the intervening galaxy cluster, which acts like a gigantic lens.
Exact measurement of the distance from spectroscopic observations with the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii show the lensed galaxy is the farthest ever seen. Its light is only reaching us now from a time when the universe was but 7% its current age of approximately 14 billion years. This places the young galaxy as far as 13 billion light-years away. The lensing foreground cluster is 5 billion light-years from us.
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Keck Observatory
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Keck Observatory
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California
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Hawaii
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Hawaii
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Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz
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Mars
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Mars
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Netherlands
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Netherlands
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July 30, 1997
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July 30, 1997
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1997
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1997
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SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-199 7-25b
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SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-199 7-25b
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Release Date:
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July 30, 1997 12:00 AM (EDT)
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July 30, 1997 12:00 AM (EDT)
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