Aug 8, 2023 · Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous. The star, which the research team has dubbed Earendel, is located in the Sunrise Arc galaxy and is detectable only due to the combined power of human technology and nature via ...

This article documents the most distant astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified. For comparisons with the light travel distance of the astronomical objects listed below, the age of the universe since the Big Bang is currently estimated as 13.787±0.020 Gyr.

Mar 30, 2022 · 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.

Mar 21, 2024 · The farthest star that's visible to the naked eye is V762 Cas, a variable star sitting a whopping 16,000 light-years away.

Apr 2, 2018 · More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen. Normally, it would be much too faint to view, even with the world’s largest telescopes.

First red supergiant at cosmological distances. A binary consisting of a yellow supergiant or yellow hypergiant and a Blue supergiant. The most distant known star prior to the discovery of Earendel. Luminous blue variable. Blue supergiant.

Jan 27, 2025 · Faraway from Earth in the Sunrise Arc galaxy lies a star so distant that it took 12.9 billion years for its light to reach our planet. Named Earendel, after a character from J.R.R Tolkien’s Silmarillion, this star is the most distant ever observed by scientists and is now a mind-boggling 28 billion light years from Earth.

Aug 9, 2023 · The farthest star ever detected, located behind what NASA describes as "a wrinkle in space-time," is more than twice as hot as the sun and about a million times more luminous.

Apr 1, 2022 · NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the most distant single star ever detected in outer space. Light from the star—dubbed Earendel from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning rising light or morning...

Apr 4, 2022 · The furthest light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is the light left over from the Big Bang, forming at just 380,000 years after our cosmic birth.