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Zoom into GOODS North Survey and Distant Galaxy GN-z11

This animation shows the location of galaxy GN-z11, which is the farthest galaxy ever seen. The video begins by locating the Big Dipper, then showing the constellation Ursa Major. It then zooms into the GOODS North field of galaxies, and ends with a Hubble image of the young galaxy. GN-z11 is shown as it existed 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the big bang, when the universe was only three percent of its present age.
  • Release Date
    March 3, 2016
  • Science Release
    Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI); Science: 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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