Astronomical objects discovered in 2016

GN-z11 is a high-redshift galaxy discovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in the constellation Ursa Major. It is among the farthest galaxies from Earth ever found. The 2015 discovery was published in a 2016 paper headed by Pascal Oesch and Gabriel Brammer (Cosmic Dawn Center). Up until the discovery of JADES-GS-z13-0 in 2022 by the James Webb Space Telescope, GN-z11 was the oldest and most distant galaxy yet identified in the observable universe, having a spectroscopic redshift of , which corresponds to a proper distance of approximately . Data published in 2024 established that the galaxy

moon of planet Jupiter

moon of Jupiter

near-Earth asteroid and quasi-satellite of Earth

the largest known galaxy wall

dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way

red dwarf in the constellation Centaurus

asteroid

triple-star system in the constellation Norma; the best known gamma-ray burst progenitor candidate

galaxy

comet

Supercluster in the constellation Vela

a young, pre-main-sequence star about 5 million years old, of spectral type M1, located in the Upper Scorpius sub-group of the Scorpius–Centaurus Association

brightest supernova ever recorded

dwarf spheroidal galaxy

asteroid

massive millisecond pulsar in the Milky Way

Amor asteroid

nova

nova in the constellation Sagittarius

star in the constellation Carina