Most Distant Known Object in Universe
The fading infrared afterglow of GRB 090423 appears in the center of this false-color image taken with the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii. The burst is the farthest cosmic explosion yet seen.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA, D. Fox and A. Cucchiara (Penn State Univ.) and E. Berger (Harvard Univ.)
About the Image
Id: | gemini0902a |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | April 30, 2009, 8 p.m. |
Related releases: | gemini0902 |
Size: | 1039 x 1038 px |
About the Object
Name: | GRB 090423 |
Category: | Cosmology |
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Gemini North NIRI |