Webb telescope observing Earendel

Earendel, farthest and earliest star ever seen, might not be what it seems

A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic objects allowed a space telescope to see a star that existed when the universe was only 900 million years old.  NASA’s Hubble observatory made the discovery in 2022, making it the farthest and earliest star ever seen. Astronomers named it Earendel, meaning “morning star” in

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