Hubble Space Telescope Spots Earliest and Farthest Star Known - The New York Times

Its light twinkled some 900 million years after the Big Bang, astronomers say.

The researchers nicknamed the new star Earendel Old English for morning star. If it is a single star, the astronomers estimate that it is a big one some 50 times the mass of our sun. It could also be… [+1641 chars]

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