Skip to main content

Hubble broke records by observing the farthest star ever detected, Earendel!

Thanks to a lucky cosmic alignment, the gravity of a galaxy cluster between us & Earendel magnified the star’s light: https://go.nasa.gov/47pbT9w

Now, we know more about it with @NASAWebb on the job! ⬇️
#Hubble

Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
#hubble

Lo, thar be cookies on this site to keep track of your login. By clicking 'okay', you are CONSENTING to this.

⇧