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Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the furthest individual star to date. The Earendel star was born in the first billion years of the universe’s creation. The star is 28 billion light-years away from Earth. Astronomers saw the light from Earendel as it was when the cosmos was barely 7% of its present age.On March 30, 2022, this space news outlining the discovery was released.
Discovering Earendel with the Help of the Hubble Space Telescope:
Astronomers at the National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, and the Cosmic Dawn Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, were able to identify Earendel via a phenomenon called “gravitational lensing.” Using Hubble’s RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey) tool, the astronomers discovered Earendel.
According to astronomers, the brightness of Earendel is a million times greater than that of the Sun. In a remarkable cosmic coincidence, the galaxies in the cluster WHL0137-08 lined up to direct a single star’s light onto Earth, amplifying it millions of times. With gravitational lenses and nine hours of Hubble Space Telescope exposure, an international team of scientists could identify Earendel.
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