Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Description: |
Galaxies at Redshift z = 6 |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 12h 43m 32s
Dec. +11° 40' 32" |
| Constellation: |
Virgo |
| Distance: |
Over 13 billion light-years (4,000 megaparsecs) |
| Dimensions: |
The ACS image is roughly 35 arcseconds (680,000 light-years or 210 kiloparsecs) in width. |
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| About the Data |
| Note: |
The dataset used in this image is from the HST archive proposal
9575, Principal Investigator W. Sparks (STScI). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
April 28 to June 19, 2002 |
| Exposure Time: |
7 hours |
| Filters: |
F775W (i), F850LP (z) |
| Principal Astronomers: |
H.-J. Yan, R. Windhorst and S. Cohen (ASU) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, H.-J. Yan, R. Windhorst and S. Cohen (ASU) |
| Release Date: |
January 9, 2003 |
| Orientation: |
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