BX442
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bx442-303-12774890
title:
BX442
text:
BX442 (Q2343-BX442) is a grand design spiral galaxy of type Sc. It has a companion dwarf galaxy. It is the most distant known grand design spiral galaxy in the universe, with a redshift of z=2.1765 ± 0.0001.
It is commonly referred to as the oldest known grand design spiral galaxy in the universe, but it is more accurately the earliest such galaxy known to exist in the universe, with a lookback time of 10.7 billion years in the concordance cosmology. This time estimate means that structure seen
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Distant grand design spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BX442
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date modified:
2024-03-28T12:32:19Z
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13
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