Hubble Reveals The Most Distant Star Ever Detected
The distant stellar system gets its official name WHL0137-LS, but astronomers who found it named it “Earendel” from the Old English word meaning “morning star” or “rising light”. The Earendel system as we see it today glowed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, according to the authors of a new paper in the journal Nature describing the discovery. It took a total of 12.8 billion years before this light reached the Hubble Space Telescope, magnified by a lucky trick of gravity to appear as a tiny photon blur on the Hubble image sensor....