In March 2022, astronomers announced the discovery of the farthest known star via an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08, which is gravitational lensing the most strongly magnified galaxy known in the Universe’s first billion years: the Sunrise Arc, and within that galaxy, the most distant star ever detected.via an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. They named it Earendel, after the old English name for"morning star".
Compared to the Sun, it's twice as hot and a million times more luminous. What astronomers suspect is that this star, like many other massive stars like it, may have a companion. However, they lie so close together and we're seeing them at such a great distance , that it's tough to make them out separately.
If it's a second-generation star, then the properties of its light would show other elements, too. Other examples of this type of blue supergiant star are Rigel and Beta Centauri.This star's host galaxy appears to us as a long crescent-shaped smear of light. The galaxy also contains star clusters well along in their evolution. One of those clusters is around 10 million years old. It may still exist in the modern Universe.
That's how it appears separately from the smeared image of its host galaxy. In addition to the NIRCam view of this scene, JWST's infrared spectrometer took data. It gives astronomers more details about the exact distance to Earendel and its home galaxy.JWST has detected other distant stars using its infrared-sensitive instruments. So far, Earendel remains the record-holder for distance. But, there are many more observations to be made.
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