ESOcast 22: The most distant galaxy ever measured
A European team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analysing the very faint glow of the galaxy they have found that they are seeing it when the Universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6). These are the first confirmed observations of a galaxy whose light is clearing the opaque hydrogen fog that filled the cosmos at this early time.
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Credit:ESO. Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser and Luis Calçada. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Lars Holm Nielsen and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Richard Hook and Douglas Pierce-Price. Narration: Dr.J and Gaitee Hussain. Footage and photos: ESO, NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory and University of California, Santa Cruz) and the HUDF09 Team, A. M. Swinbank and S. Zieleniewski, M. Alvarez (http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~malvarez), R. Kaehler and T. Abel and José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org). Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
About the Video
| Id: | eso1041a |
| Release date: | 20 October 2010, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1041 |
| Related announcements: | ann1075 |
| Duration: | 05 m 41 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | UDFy-38135539 |
| Type: | Early Universe : Galaxy |
| Category: | ESOcast |
