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GN-z10-2 Detail

GN-z10-2 Detail

About the Data

  • Data Description
    Data DescriptionProposal: A description of the observations, their scientific justification, and the links to the data available in the science archive.
    Science Team: The astronomers who planned the observations and analyzed the data. "PI" refers to the Principal Investigator.
    The science team members are G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz; Yale University), R. Bouwens, I. Labbé, R. Smit, and M. Franx (Leiden University), P. van Dokkum and I. Momcheva (Yale University), M. Ashby, G. Fazio, J.-S. Huang, and S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), V. Gonzalez (University of California, Riverside), D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), M. Trenti (University of Cambridge), G. Brammer (STScI), R. Skelton (South African Astronomical Observatory), and L. Spitler (Macquarie University/AAO).
  • Instrument
    InstrumentThe science instrument used to produce the data.
    HST>WFC3/IR
  • Filters
    FiltersThe camera filters that were used in the science observations.
    F105W (Y), F125W (J) and F160W (H)
  • Object Name
    Object NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.
    GN-z10-2
  • Object Description
    Object DescriptionThe type of astronomical object.
    Distant galaxy
  • Release Date
    January 7, 2014
  • Science Release
    NASA Great Observatories Team Up to Discover Ultra-Bright Young Galaxies
    Read the release
  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz; Yale University), R. Bouwens and I. Labbé (Leiden University), and the Science Team

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GN-z10-2 Detail
Color Info
Color InfoA brief description of the methods used to convert telescope data into the color image being presented.

Blue: F105W Green: F125W Red: F160W

Compass and Scale
Compass and ScaleAn astronomical image with a scale that shows how large an object is on the sky, a compass that shows how the object is oriented on the sky, and the filters with which the image was made.

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Last Updated
Mar 28, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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