Distant Gravitationally lensed galaxy in Abell 1689

The distance to the lensed galaxy is about 12.8 billion light-years.

The archival data used in this study was from Spitzer proposal 20439.

Science Team: L. Bradley (The Johns Hopkins University), R. Bouwens (University of California - Santa Cruz), H. Ford (The Johns Hopkins University), G. Illingworth (University of California - Santa Cruz), M. Jee (University of California - Davis), N. Benítez (Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental), T. Broadhurst (Tel Aviv University), M. Franx (Leiden Observatory), B. Frye (Dublin City University), L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Católica), V. Motta (Universidad de Valparaíso), P. Rosati (European Southern Observatory), R. White (Space Telescope Science Institute), and W. Zheng (The Johns Hopkins University).

1 3.6 microns and 2 4.5 microns

NASA, ESA, L. Bradley (JHU), R. Bouwens (UCSC), H. Ford (JHU), and G. Illingworth (UCSC)