Hubble telescope spots Earendel, the most distant star on record - Reuters

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the most distant individual star on record, a bright behemoth they nicknamed Earendel - Old English for "morning star" - because it existed during the dawn of the universe.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the most distant individual star on record, a bright behemoth they nicknamed Earendel - Old English fo… [+4373 chars]

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