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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Discovers the Most Distant Star Ever Seen from Earth

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  Original Content- Business Upside  Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the furthest individual star to date. The Earendel star was born in the first billion years of the universe’s creation. The star is 28 billion light-years away from  Earth . Astronomers saw the light from Earendel as it was when the cosmos was barely 7% of its present age. On March 30, 2022, this   space news   outlining the discovery was released. Discovering Earendel with the Help of the Hubble Space Telescope: Astronomers at the National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, and the Cosmic Dawn Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, were able to identify Earendel via a phenomenon called “gravitational lensing.” Using Hubble’s RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey) tool, the astronomers discovered Earendel. According to astronomers, the brightness of Earendel is a million times greater than that of the Sun. In a remarkable cosmic coinc...