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| In a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a team of astronomers asserts that this is the most distant individual star ever seen. They describe the star, which they have named Earendel, as 50 to 100 times more massive than our sun, and roughly 1 million times brighter, with its starlight having traveled 12.9 billion years to reach the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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| | | | Science Alert | March 30, 11:04 a.m. EDT | | | | | In a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a team of astronomers asserts that this is the most distant individual star ever seen. They describe the star, which they have named Earendel, as 50 to 100 times more massive than our sun, and roughly 1 million times brighter, with its starlight having traveled 12.9 billion years to reach the Hubble Space Telescope. | | | | | |
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