One of the farthest known galaxies from the Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis
MACS0647-JD is a galaxy with a redshift of about z = 10.7, equivalent to a light travel distance of 13.26 billion light-years (4 billion parsecs ). If the distance estimate is correct, it formed about 427 million years after the Big Bang .[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
MACS0647-JD is very young and only a tiny fraction of the size of the Milky Way .[ 6]
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^ Coe, Dan; Zitrin, Adi; Carrasco, Mauricio; Shu, Xinwen; Zheng, Wei; Postman, Marc; Bradley, Larry; Koekemoer, Anton; Bouwens, Rychard; Broadhurst, Tom; Monna, Anna; Host, Ole; Moustakas, Leonidas A.; Ford, Holland; Moustakas, John; Van Der Wel, Arjen; Donahue, Megan; Rodney, Steven A.; Benítez, Narciso; Jouvel, Stephanie; Seitz, Stella; Kelson, Daniel D.; Rosati, Piero (2013). "CLASH: Three Strongly Lensed Images of a Candidate z ~ 11 Galaxy". The Astrophysical Journal . 762 (1): 32. arXiv :1211.3663 . Bibcode :2013ApJ...762...32C . doi :10.1088/0004-637x/762/1/32 . S2CID 119114237 .
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