Hubble Finds the Most Distant Star Ever Seen
esahubble_heic2203a March 30th, 2022
Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Welch (JHU), D. Coe (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI)
With this observation, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the Universe’s birth in the Big Bang (at a redshift of 6.2) — the most distant individual star ever seen. This sets up a major target for the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope in its first year.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2203a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic2203a
- Subject Category
- D.3 D.6.2.1
- Subject Name
- Distant Star
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, B. Welch (JHU), D. Coe (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2022-03-30T17:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic2203a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- I, Y, YJ, H
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 1050, 1100, 1600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 24.3546585378, -8.45600656009
- Reference Dimension
- 3816.0, 4757.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1835.84719137836, 2628.99708702774
- Scale
- -8.35446e-06, 8.35446e-06
- Rotation
- -15.15463151038
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic2203a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic2203a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2023-11-26T00:53:36.861667
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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