Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Names: |
SDSS1030-1813, SDSS1030-2559, 1256-0, 1256-1967, 1256-142, ECDFS-5856, ECDFS-11490, HDFS1-1849, HDFS2-2046 |
| Object Description: |
Distant Galaxies |
| Distance: |
Roughly 11 billion light-years or 3 billion parsecs |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
The Hubble images were created using HST data from proposal 10808: P. van Dokkum, R. Quadri, and D. Marchesini (Yale University), S. Toft (Yale University/ESO), M. Kriek (Princeton University), M. Franx (Leiden University, The Netherlands), G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz, and Lick Observatory), and G. Rudnick (NOAO/AURA). |
| Instrument: |
NICMOS |
| Exposure Date(s): |
June 2006 - June 2007 |
| Exposure Time: |
23 hours |
| Filters: |
F160W (H-band) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, P. van Dokkum (Yale University), M. Franx (Leiden University, The Netherlands), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz, and Lick Observatory) |
| Release Date: |
April 29, 2008 |
| Orientation/Scale: |
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