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
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo0109b |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 2 April 2001, 19:00 |
| Size: | 1526 x 762 px |
About the Object
| Name: | SN 1997FF |
| Type: | • Early Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Supernova • Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field |
| Distance: | z=1.7 (redshift) |
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 |
