Farthest Supernova Ever - SN 1997ff
Astronomers found this supernova in 1997 during a second look at the northern Hubble Deep Field, a tiny region of sky first explored by the Hubble telescope in 1995. The image shows the myriad of galaxies Hubble spied when it peered across more than 10 billion years of time and space.
Credit:NASA/ESA, Adam Riess ( Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD)
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | SN 1997FF |
| Type: | Early Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Supernova Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field |
| Distance: | z=1.7 (redshift) |
| Constellation: | Ursa Major |
| Category: | Galaxies |
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 12 36 49.80 |
| Position (Dec): | 62° 12' 28.92" |
| Field of view: | 2.53 x 1.26 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 23.8° left of vertical |
View in ESASky:
View in WorldWide Telescope:
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
| Infrared J | 1.1 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
NICMOS |
| Infrared H | 1.6 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
NICMOS |