SN UDS10Wil

SN UDS10Wil (SN Wilson)^[4] is a type Ia supernova, and as of April 2013, the farthest known.^[5]

SN UDS10Wil

Record-breaking supernova SN UDS10Wil in the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey[1]
Ia
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	02h 17m 46s[2]
Declination	−05° 15′ 23″[2]
Epoch	J2000
Distance	16,600 megalight-years (5,100 Mpc)
Redshift	1.914[2]
Other designations	SN UDS10Wil,[3] SN Wilson
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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]

See also

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