Other designations SN UDS10Wil, SN Wilson Spectral class Ia Redshift 1.914 | Event type Type Ia supernova Instrument Hubble Space Telescope | |
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Distance 10,500,000,000 light-years (3,200,000 kpc) | ||
SN UDS10Wil (SN Wilson) is a type Ia supernova, and as of April 2013, the farthest known. It has a redshift of 1.914, which strongly implies that it exploded when the universe was about a third of its current size. It was discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3.
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