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Oops! Earendel, most distant star ever discovered, may not actually be a star, James Webb Telescope reveals
New analysis using James Webb Space Telescope data suggests Earendel's brightness and spectral features align with those of star clusters, challenging its status as a single star.
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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 Old English. A year later, scientists followed up with the James Webb Space Telescope because it has a larger mir…
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope has led to a reexamination of "Irendale," the most distant star ever discovered • Findings suggest it may be a star cluster rather than a single star • The object was discovered in 2022 at a distance of 12.9 billion light-years from Earth
Turns Out The Most Distant Star Ever Discovered Is Not Actually A Star
When astronomers first spotted Earendel with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2022, it was hailed as the most distant star ever observed, located about 12.9 billion light years away. But new data from the James Webb Space Telescope is making scientists rethink that record-breaking discovery. Instead of being a single, massive star, Earendel might actually […] The post Turns Out The Most Distant Star Ever Discovered Is Not Actually A Star appeared f…
We Just Found 300 Mysterious Objects That Challenge Everything We Know
We Just Found 300 Mysterious Objects That Challenge Everything We Know The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 300 unusually bright deep-space objects, some possibly among the earliest galaxies. One is already confirmed from just 570 million years after the Big Bang. If more are verified, they could force astronomers to rethink how galaxies formedWe Just Found 300 Mysterious Objects That Challenge Everything We Know The James Webb Space Te…
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