Meet Earendel, the most distant star ever detected The star, i | Great Space
Meet Earendel, the most distant star ever detected The star, imaged by the Hubble telescope, shone just 900 million years after the Big Bang
The most distant star — or possibly pair of stars — that astronomers have ever seen was just revealed thanks to the Hubble telescope and a massive cluster of galaxies. Far from Earth, the universe bends around the vast bulk of a galaxy cluster, creating a gravitational lens in spacetime much like the curved lens in a magnifying glass. Like a magnifying glass, it revealed something small and hidden: a star system from the early universe.
