JWST Captures The Most Distant Star Ever Seen - Earendel

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of the most distant star known in the universe, which had been announced by scientists using Webb's predecessor the Hubble Space Telescope only a few months ago.

The star, named Earendel, after a character in J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" prequel "The Silmarillion," was discovered thanks to gravitational lensing in a Hubble Space Telescope deep field image. The star, whose light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, is so faint that it might be rather challenging to find it in the new James Webb Space Telescope image.

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[comnadedadog]

Considering how far away it is
It has probably unalived and probably did millions maybe billions of years ago and we are just seeing the light that took 12.9 billion years to get to earth

[felern]

Sick to think about the earth didnt even exist over half of the time the light was heading this way

[Dylan-blxl]

Impressive!!🌟🤩 Earendel is a pretty name btw.

[nery]

Oh wow. It has probably already turned into a supernova or a black hole, if it was big enough.

[yashanshpreet]

It means
Rip erandel
It already dead

[keiraw]

There’s probably more of those planets that we can’t see, because haven’t existed long enough for the light to reach us yet

[mamaboocee]

Oh they are so silly! That's not a faraway star, it's the back of the photographer's head.

[AudioBucket]

But didnt the universee itself form 12 billion years ago???

[ShahzilNasir]

Earth is 4.5 billion years old and this light took 12 billion years to reach.-_-

[catmanlolgameing]

Means right now if there was I human there they would see a rock of molten

[hipsterroxx]

It's nearly big bang how far dude

[mukulchauhan]

When uh realise how much old this light would be when it fall pn the kames web
Can't say the will still be there !!

[Teamsweetie]

Hm kinda reminds me of-
THAT KINGDOM FROM FROZEN

[shadow_rune]

The music is cringe. JWST is fucking epic tho