Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...

JWST observations challenge the idea that Earendel is a lone massive star. Instead, it may be a compact star cluster ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers reexamined the size and brightness of Earendel, ...

It’s worth noting that stars didn’t even start showing up until about 300 million years after the Big Bang. So, whether ...

Earendel, which astronomers believed to be the most distant star ever observed, may be something else according to new ...

Back in 2022, the Hubble space telescope appeared to have found the most distant star ever discovered. Named Earendel – ...

Three and a half years ago, the most distant star by far was discovered. However, it may not be a single object at all.

Earendel is so distant that the starlight glimpsed by the Webb telescope was emitted within the first billion years of the universe. The universe is estimated to be about 13.8 billion years old.

Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star, nicknamed Earendel, to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our sun, and about a million times more luminous.

Earendel dates back to the first billion years after the big bang, offering researchers a glimpse of stars from this time in the Universe’s history. There was a whole lot of serendipity involved in ...

Earendel, named after a half-elven character in JRR Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, although spelt slightly differently, is double the distance of Icarus, the second furthest away at 14.4 billion ...

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 ...