SN UDS10Wil explained

SN UDS10Wil
Type:	Ia
Epoch:	J2000
Constellation:	Cetus
Redshift:	1.914
Distance:	16600Mly
Names:	SN UDS10Wil,^[1] SN Wilson

SN UDS10Wil (SN Wilson) is a type Ia supernova, and as of April 2013, the farthest known.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. The nickname SN Wilson is after the American President Woodrow Wilson.^[2]

See also

• List of most distant supernovae
• List of the most distant astronomical objects

References

1. NAME UDS10Wil. 2021-01-25.
2. Web site: Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova. 2013-04-04. Hubble Space Telescope.

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