“We’ve certainly seen galaxies further away, but that is the new record-holder for the most distanced star that we know of,” NASA astronomer Jane Rigby said.
which means "morning star" in Old English. The paper was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
The research team estimates that Earendel is at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright, rivaling the most massive stars known. Astronomers expect that Earendel will remain highly magnified for years to come. It will be observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which launched in December. "Those kinds of stars are rare," Rigby noted. "They live fast and die young. They usually only last a couple of million years and then they explode." NASA says this discovery holds promise for opening up an uncharted era of very early star formation.
"Earendel existed so long ago that it may not have had all the same raw materials as the stars around us today," Welch explained. "Studying Earendel will be a window into an era of the universe that we are unfamiliar with, but that led to everything we do know. It’s like we’ve been reading a really interesting book, but we started with the second chapter, and now we will have a chance to see how it all got started," Welch said in a press release Wednesday.
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