'Nobody’s ever seen a star this highly magnified, not to mention a galaxy.'
"Nobody’s ever seen a star this highly magnified, not to mention a galaxy."NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a photo of the most distant star in the known Universe some 12.9 billion light-years away — and even as a tiny dot, it's a sight to behold.the new image of the star named Earendel — which was named after a character in JRR Tolkien's novel "The Silmarillion" — to Twitter on Tuesday, pointing out that it's "the most distant star known.
You can see Earendel as it's lensed by the cluster, WHL0137-08, in the center of the image! Here is a zoom-in on the star itself! Stay tuned for an update from the science team!
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