The Hubble telescope snapped an image showing the most distant individual star ever seen. Dubbed Earendel, the star lies 12.9 billion light-years from Earth and is believed to be about 50 times as massive as the sun.
Record-setting discovery comes decades after the Earth-orbiting observatory began scanning the cosmos
The most distant individual star ever seen has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA said Wednesday. The star is believed to be 12.9 billion light-years from Earth and about 50 times as massive as the sun. Photo: NASAThe Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a record-setting image showing the most distant individual star ever seen, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday.
The star lies 12.9 billion light-years from Earth and formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang that created the universe some 13.8 billion years ago,To Read the Full Story
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