Someone has a question in deep space (sarc)

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NASA’s James Webb telescope has captured an image of the most distant known star in the universe...Earendel is believed to be 28 billion light-years away. 

Earendel was first discovered last year by the Hubble Space Telescope. The star is located so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to us as it did when the universe was just 7 percent of its current age. “The smallest objects previously seen at such a great distance are clusters of stars, embedded inside early galaxies,” says NASA.

Because the universe is expanding incredibly fast, the star’s distance is now believed to be over 28 billion light-years from Earth.

Hubble was able to find Earendel thanks to a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.

This occurs when the gravitational field of a massive object, such as a galaxy or, in this case, a huge star, bends and distorts the path of light from a background object, such as a more distant galaxy or quasar. This bending of light creates a lens-like effect, magnifying and sometimes even distorting the appearance of the background object.

Researchers estimate that Earendel is at least 50 times the mass of the Sun and millions of times brighter.
“But even such a brilliant, very high-mass star would be impossible to see at such a great distance without the aid of natural magnification by a huge galaxy cluster, WHL0137-08, sitting between us and Earendel,” NASA explained in a statement.

Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged the star, researchers can begin follow-up studies to measure its brightness and temperature and even determine its composition. Webb’s suite of new instruments and a mirror with high sensitivity to infrared light allows it to collect more information that the limited Hubble telescope cannot do.

We’ll know more about any discoveries or findings in the coming months.

Most distant star ever detected seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Earendel, which means "morning star" in Old English.

Most commonly used as a name for the Planet Venus. Lucifer, a name based on the Latin name for the Morning Star...and many other name meanings in mythology and theology.

Tolkien used the original Old English name Eärendel for all drafts previous to The Lord of the Rings, and first he related it with the Elvish words ea ("eagle") and earen ("eyre"), but the exact meaning of the name remained unclear within the Legendarium until he remade the name into Quenya to Earendil.
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