Most Distant Star Ever Found

[Black Orchid]

The Hubble Space Telescope has broken yet another observing record: The famed observatory has found the most distant "ordinary" star ever observed, at an astounding 9 billion light-years from Earth — which means the light scientists see started traveling at least 9 billion years ago. By comparison, the age of the universe is roughly 13.8 billion years.

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"For the first time ever, we're seeing an individual normal star — not a supernova, not a gamma-ray burst, but a single stable star — at a distance of nine billion light-years," study co-author Alex Filippenko, an astronomer at UC Berkeley, said in the same statement. These lenses are amazing cosmic telescopes."

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Astronomers also probed dark matter — a little-understood substance that makes up most of the universe — with observations of Icarus. In contrast to what some previous theories had stated, the new observations suggest that dark matter is not made up of primordial black holes within galaxy clusters.

https://www.space.com/40171-cosmic-alig ... r-yet.html

[BigP]

Is it a big star far away or a little star close up ?

[Black Orchid]

It's 9 billion light years from Earth so maybe not so close?

[BigP]

It's 9 billion light years from Earth so maybe not so close?

To be honest I would have thought it would have been futher away than that

[Black Orchid]

It's the most distant star ever observed so it's a first.

[BigP]

It's the most distant star ever observed so it's a first.

The cosmos just got a little smaller lol

[Neferti]

https://www.space.com/40171-cosmic-alig ... r-yet.html

[BigP]

It's the most distant star ever observed so it's a first.

And given the universe is still exspanding , its a little further away today than it was yesterday

[Neferti]

[Bobby]

The Hubble Space Telescope has broken yet another observing record: The famed observatory has found the most distant "ordinary" star ever observed, at an astounding 9 billion light-years from Earth — which means the light scientists see started traveling at least 9 billion years ago. By comparison, the age of the universe is roughly 13.8 billion years.

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"For the first time ever, we're seeing an individual normal star — not a supernova, not a gamma-ray burst, but a single stable star — at a distance of nine billion light-years," study co-author Alex Filippenko, an astronomer at UC Berkeley, said in the same statement. These lenses are amazing cosmic telescopes."

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Astronomers also probed dark matter — a little-understood substance that makes up most of the universe — with observations of Icarus. In contrast to what some previous theories had stated, the new observations suggest that dark matter is not made up of primordial black holes within galaxy clusters.

https://www.space.com/40171-cosmic-alig ... r-yet.html

Great post & informative read.