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NASA Great Observatories Find Candidate for Most Distant Galaxy Yet Known

By combining the power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new distance record for finding the farthest galaxy yet seen in the universe. The diminutive blob, which is only a tiny fraction of the size of our Milky Way galaxy, offers a peek back into a time when the universe was 3 percent of its present age of 13.7 billion years. The newly discovered galaxy, named MACS0647-JD, is observed 420 million years after the big bang. Its light has traveled 13.3 billion years to reach Earth.

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HLA Data Release 5

spacer The Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) announces the availability of Data Release 5 as of March 8, 2011. New in this release are a new, interactive footprint interface (pictured); multi-wavelength source lists; high-level WFC3 science products from the Early-Release Science and the Multi-Cycle Treasury program CANDELS; and the ability to obtain source information directly from the Interactive Display overlay. DR5 also completes the processing of the WFPC2 data, all of which are now public. Read more...

Very Wide Field Surveys in the Light of Astro2010

spacer A general theme to the top recommendations of the Astro2010 Decadal Survey is the importance of wide-area surveys. These surveys will provide data that are much deeper and covering larger solid angles than previous surveys, opening new parameter space for discovery. Read more...

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