Distant Dusty Galaxy A1689-zD1 behind Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 | Hubble

Distant Dusty Galaxy A1689-zD1 behind Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 | Hubble

This spectacular view from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope shows the rich galaxy cluster Abell 1689. The huge concentration of mass bends light coming from more distant objects and can increase their total apparent brightness and make them visible. One such object, A1689-zD1, is located in the box—although it is still so faint that it is barely seen in this picture.

New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that this object is a dusty galaxy seen when the Universe was just 700 million years old.

Credit: NASA; ESA; L. Bradley (Johns Hopkins University); R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz); H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University); and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Release Date: March 2, 2015

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