Hubble telescope spots Earendel, the most distant star... - Daily Maverick

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the most distant individual star on record, a bright behemoth they nicknamed Earendel - Old English for "morning star" - because it existed during the dawn of the…

By Will Dunham Researchers said the star, very hot and blue in color, was estimated at 50 to 100 times the mass of our sun, while being millions of times brighter. Its light traveled for 12.9 billio… [+3328 chars]

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