A1689B11 is an extremely old
spiral galaxy located in the
Abell 1689
Abell 1689 is a galaxy cluster in the constellation Virgo (constellation), Virgo over 2.3 billion light-years away.
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Abell 1689 is one of the biggest and most massive galaxy clusters known and acts as a gravitational lens, distorting the i ...
galaxy cluster in the Virgo constellation. The disk of A1689B11 is cool and thin, yet it produced stars at thirty times the rate of the Milky Way. A1689B11 is 11 billion light years from the Earth, forming 2.6 billion years after the Big Bang. It one of the most distant known spiral galaxies .
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BX442
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.
Although commonly referred to as the ...
, another old and distant spiral galaxy
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Spiral galaxies
Virgo (constellation)
Dwarf spiral galaxies
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