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About the Object	Object Name: AMS08 Object Type: Dust-Obscured Quasar Position (J2000): RA: 17h14m29.67s Dec: +59d32m33.5 s Distance: 3.5 billion light years/1.0 billion parsecs Redshift: 1.98 Constellation: Draco
About the Data	Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Martinez-Sansigre (Oxford University) Instrument: IRAC, MIPS Wavelength: 3.6 microns (blue), 24 microns (green), 21 cm (red, from the NRAO Very Large Array) Image Scale: 2.0 x 2.0 arcmin Orientation: North is up Release Date: 03 August 2005
Observers	A. Martinez-Sansigre (Oxford University) S. Rawlings (Oxford University) M. Lacy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech) D. Fadda (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech) F.R. Marleau (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech) C. Simpson (University of Durham) C.J. Willott (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics) M.J. Jarvis (Oxford University)

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