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__NOTOC__ MACS0647-JD is a galaxy with a spectroscopic redshift of z = 10.17, equivalent to a light travel distance of 13.34 billion light-years (4 billion parsecs). It formed about 460 million years after the Big Bang.thumb|MACS0647-JD is very young and only a tiny fraction of the size of the Milky Way. |alt=|left

Key facts

Galaxy.image
MACS0647-JD.JPG
Galaxy.image_size
250px
Galaxy.caption
Hubble Space Telescope image of MACS0647-JD
Galaxy.name
MACS0647-JD
Galaxy.epoch
J2000
Galaxy.type
Dwarf
Galaxy.h_radial_v
3,183,796 km/s
Galaxy.dist_ly
(light-travel time) (comoving distance)
Galaxy.stars
1 billion
Galaxy.group_cluster
MACS J0647+7015
Galaxy.size_v
0.00015 x 0.000062
Galaxy.constellation name
Camelopardalis
Galaxy.size
600 ly (diameter)
Galaxy.names
CZC2013 MACS0647-JD1

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
galaxy
Constellation
Camelopardalis
Distance from Earth
31939000000
Image
MACS0647-JD.JPG
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Commons category
MACS0647-JD
redshift
11.0
right ascension
101.9822125
declination
70.2432667
epoch
J2000.0
radial velocity
295657
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Details
  • Spectroscopy by JWST
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

__NOTOC__ MACS0647-JD is a galaxy with a spectroscopic redshift of z = 10.17, equivalent to a light travel distance of 13.34 billion light-years (4 billion parsecs). It formed about 460 million years after the Big Bang.thumb|MACS0647-JD is very young and only a tiny fraction of the size of the Milky Way. |alt=|left

==Details== JD refers to J-band Dropout – the galaxy was not detected in the so-called J-band (F125W), nor in 14 bluer Hubble filters. It only appeared in the two reddest filters (F140W and F160W).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MACS0647-JD” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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