Zhúlóng: The most distant spiral galaxy
noirlab_noirlab2516b April 16th, 2025
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/NASA/CSA/ESA/M. Xiao (University of Geneva)/G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute)/D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
This image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date, shows its remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a central old bulge, and a large star-forming disk, resembling the structure of the Milky Way. This galaxy was discovered as part of the PANORAMIC Survey — a wide-area imaging survey being conducted with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2516b/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noirlab2516b
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Credits
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/NASA/CSA/ESA/M. Xiao (University of Geneva)/G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute)/D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
- Release Date
- 2025-04-16T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2516b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- James Webb Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- None, None, None, I
- Central Wavelength
- 4440, 2770, 1500, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 150.1248349252461, 2.092893329651083
- Reference Dimension
- 2088.0, 2088.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1044.0, 1044.0
- Scale
- -6.139518843187836e-07, 6.139518843187836e-07
- Rotation
- 0.539999999999998
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noirlab2516b
- Resource URL
- https://storage.noirlab.edu/media/archives/images/original/noirlab2516b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2025-04-16T01:26:34+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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