Right ascension 00 14 25.08 Redshift 8 Apparent size (V) 2,300 ly (diameter) | Declination −30° 22′ 49.7″ Group or cluster Abell 2744 Constellation Sculptor | |
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Distance 13 billion light-years
(light travel distance) Similar 2MASX J004821, NGC 613, NGC 300, NGC 134, Haro 11 | ||
Abell 2744 Y1 is a galaxy located in the Abell 2744 galaxy cluster 13 billion light years away in the Sculptor constellation. It is 2,300 light years in diameter, 50 times smaller than the Milky Way galaxy, but producing 10 times more stars. The galaxy was discovered in July 2014 by an international team led by astronomers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and La Laguna University (ULL) as part of the Frontier Fields program with the help of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes.
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