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In March 1998 the galaxy RD1 (RD1) with a redshift of 5.34 was the first object found to exceed a redshift of 5, and was at that time the most distant object known.

Astronomy Picture of the Day (March 24, 1998): http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980324.html
Johns Hopkins University (March 12, 1998): Discovery Pushes Back Boundaries of Known Universe

March 1998

Arjun Dey and his team using the W. M. Keck Observatory. Cropped from the original image by Kevin Heider to make RD1 more obvious when viewing a thumbnail.

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Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory and Arjun Dey
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