Earendel, the MOST DISTANT Star #Shorts #600K

What is the farthest star that we can see from the Earth? If you think it lies in the Milky Way, you'd be wrong, it actually lies at the edge of the universe.

Discovered by the Hubble Telescope in 2022, Earendel is an exceptionally massive, radiant and short-lived metal-poor star from just after the Cosmic Dawn, which is being magnified from a depth of almost 13 billion light years by a gravitational lens. This magnification has revealed the star from a substantially farther depth than the previous record holder, Icarus, lensed from some 9.5 billion light years from Earth.

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[TrueRetroflection]

Earendel? Like the star of Eärendil? Always love to see a Tolkien reference in astronomy

[pandoraeeris]

The best part is that you're looking at something that no longer exists.

[frankshailes]

Ironically Earendel is Venus in Tolkien's cosmology.

[orionnebula]

It's so frustrating as a star gazer this time of year, it takes ages to get dark at night ;-;

[spkn]

I’ve been binge watching your videos lately. My younger brother has been coming up to me regularly asking me why the recommended is just full of your vids. I used to watch your gd vids back in the day. Great shit man keep up the good work.

[davidrenton]

the light took 12.9 Billion light years to get to earth, but the Star is actually 28 billion light years away if it still exists.

[VillainMommy]

thanks so much for putting the time and effort (and probably money) into running this channel!!

[thomasowens]

Who would even think the furthest star we could see would be in our own galaxy???

[joshuapatrick]

whoever named this star was a TOLKIEN fan but Earendil is supposed to be the closest star to the lands between i mean...middle-Earth, sorry got Tolkien confused with Elden Ring for a moment because the latter so lazily and clearly ripped off the former

[SneakGoblin]

I can understand whatever type of existential dread you throw at me but I'll always get dread from the concept of a true beginning of beginning

[dbsti]

Crazy to think that star died a really long time ago. No telling when we would be able to see its supernova.

[Cheif_Espada]

I watch this channel almost every night to help me sleep and my girlfriend hates u. See u later!

[KappoJK]

I’m very pleased to see more and more modern cultural subjects being used as names of astronomical bodies.

[sargepent]

its a star that no longer even exists. Imagine seeing the photo of a year old girl today, billions of years after she has been dead and buried

[kalimullahrauf]

And millions of new species.. have you ever heard that

[finnthirud]

Thank you for your insight in your videos ❤

[Matt_Mosley]

9.5 to 12.9? Can we see them on a map of the observable universe please?

[exsappermadman]

Guess what? It's not there anymore...

[Altairr.]

I’ve been watching you for a long time. When you uploaded geometry dash videos and now space vids

[python]

I have a question, can anyone answer? Its believed that if you look at night sky, you look at stars which were like that 100s of yrs ago. My question is, if I see those stars through telescope, am I still seeing those 100s of yrs older?? Or that time gap decreases with increased telescope power??