Hubble Telescope Captures Most Distant Star Situated 28 Billion Light-Years Away

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Hubble Telescope Captures Most Distant Star Situated 28 Billion 
Light-Years Away
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(Hey, suppose this is where "Mother Thing" came from?)

Bharat Sharma
Updated on Mar 31, 2022, 15:52 IST
Highlights
Hubble just achieved a mind blowing feat after capturing the most 
distant star ever
The Hubble Space Telescope got a glimpse at a star situated 28 billion 
light-years away.
Astronomers say that marks the farthest detection of any star in the 
history of humankind
Hubble just achieved a mind blowing feat after capturing the most 
distant star ever. The Hubble Space Telescope got a glimpse at a star 
situated 28 billion light-years away.

Astronomers say that marks the farthest detection of any star in the 
history of humankind. What Hubble saw is effectively a  star from 900 
million years after the big bang. It could be about 50 to 500 times 
bigger than our Sun and even million times brighter.

distant star
NASA/ESA

Unlocking the secrets of universe's birth
The star has been nicknamed "Earendel" - based on an Old English word 
that means "morning star" or "rising light." A study highlighting the 
findings was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.

With this, Hubble has effectively broken its own record from 2018 when 
it saw a star that existed when the universe was four billion years old.

distant star
NASA/ESA

Earendel is situated so far away from Earth that its starlight has taken 
12.9 billion years to reach us and scientists believe this discovery 
could help astronomers probe the earliest period of our universe.

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"As we peer into the cosmos, we also look back in time, so these extreme 
high-resolution observations allow us to understand the building blocks 
of some of the very first galaxies," said study coauthor Victoria 
Strait, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cosmic Dawn Center in 
Copenhagen, in a statement.

When Earendel was emitting the light that just reached us, the universe 
was less than a billion years old - about "6% of its current age."

The Milky Way galaxy from Earth at night
Milky Way from Earth / Unsplash

At that time it emitted the light, Earendel was 4 billion light years 
away from the earliest version of Milky Way. The universe has expanded 
so much that Earendel is now 28 billion light years away.

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Did you know that stars so far away take so long to be detected on 
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References

Welch, B. (2022, March 30). A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2. 
Nature.

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