v=16.17(R). Click here to view this object's light curve.

GRB 021004     2002/10/08     04:11:16 UTC     Position: 00 26 54.689 +18 55 41.3 (2000.0) D.W. Fox et al. At 1206UT on 2002 October 4 the HETE spacecraft detected a long gamma ray burst. Less than 10 minutes later the Caltech-NRAO GRB collaboration identifed a 15th magnitude optical transient in Pisces. The redshift of this object is z=2.3 which works out to be approximately 11 to 12 billion light years away!