Light from the star, Earendel, has taken 12.9 billion years to reach the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope, and scientists say Earendel is by now 28 billion light years away
Scientists have seen the most distant
ever, a million times as bright as our sun, 28 billion light years away.
Light from the star, Earendel, has taken 12.9 billion years to reach the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope. With the universe constantly expanding, scientists have calculated that Earendel is by now 28 billion light years away from us.
Earendel, in the Sunrise Arc galaxy, is a type-B star, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera shows. That puts it at 10-20,000 C, more than twice as hot as our sun Sol. It was observable due to the gravitational lensing phenomenon â a cluster of galaxies between Earth and Earendel is so massive that it warps light around it.