Hubble Studies Compact Galaxies Loaded with Stars

stsci_2008-15a April 29th, 2008

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)

These images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show nine compact, ultradense galaxies as they appeared 11 billion years ago. The galaxies are only 5,000 light-years across and yet are 200 billion times more massive than the Sun. They are a fraction of the size of today's grownup galaxies but contain the same number of stars. Each galaxy could fit inside the central hub of our Milky Way Galaxy. Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer snapped these images between June 2006 and June 2007.

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Image Type: Collage
Object Name: unknown
Subject - Distant Universe: Galaxy

Distance

11,000,000,000 light years

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 22h 33m 37.9s; DEC = -60° 33’ 14.6”
Constellation: Tucana

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	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (NICMOS)	Infrared (H)	1.6 µm

ID: 2008-15a
Subject Category: D.5
Subject Name: unknown
Credits: 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: 2008-04-29T00:00:00+00:00
Lightyears: 11,000,000,000
Redshift: 11,000,000,000
Reference Url: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2008/news-2008-15

Type: Collage
Image Quality: Good
Distance Notes: Distance in lightyears

Facility: Hubble
Instrument: NICMOS
Color Assignment: Red

Band: Infrared
Bandpass: H
Central Wavelength: 1600

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox
Reference Value: 338.40790000, -60.55405000
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Related Resources: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/15

Metadata Date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00
Metadata Version: 1.2

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11,000,000,000 light years