Usbek & Rica – This is Earendel, the most distant star ever observed, captured by the James Webb Telescope

2023-08-14 23:39:00

WATCH // She responds to the sweet name of Earendel, “morning star” in old English. Located 28 billion light-years from Earth, this star – active for nearly 12.9 billion years (less than a billion years following the Big Bang) – is the farthest ever observed.

Discovered in March 2022, thanks to the Hubble telescope, the star located in the Sunrise Arc galaxy was captured with more precision by the James Webb telescope this month.

Thanks to this state-of-the-art space observation tool, we now know that Earendel is a type B star “more than twice as hot as our sun and regarding a million times more luminous”, explains NASA in a communiquéreleased August 8.

Next step for the American space agency: to detect the first generations of stars which gave birth to the universe during the Big Bang.

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