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Record-breaking supernova SN UDS10Wil in the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey[1]
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Event type | Supernova |
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Ia | |
Date | c. 10 billion years ago (discovered December 2010 by the Hubble Space Telescope) |
Constellation | Cetus |
Right ascension | 02h17m46s[2] |
Declination | −05° 15′ 23″[2] |
Epoch | J2000 |
Distance | c. 16.6 billion ly |
Redshift | 1.914[2] |
Other designations | SN UDS10Wil,[3] SN Wilson |
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SN UDS10Wil (SN Wilson)[4] is a type Ia supernova, and as of April 2013, the farthest known.[5] It has a redshift of 1.914, which strongly implies that it exploded when the universe was about a third of its current size. It was discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3.[1] The nickname SN Wilson is after the American President Woodrow Wilson.[6]