The galaxy was identified by a team studying data from the Hubble Space Telescope's Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) and Spitzer Space Telescope's Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North).
Galaxia bola identifikovaná tímom, ktorý študoval údaje z kozmického zhromaždenia Hubblovho vesmírneho ďalekohľadu, časti Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) a Spitzerovho vesmírneho ďalekohľadu, časti Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North).