28billion light years away... the most distant star in the universe
Irish Daily Mirror|August 11, 2023
SCIENTISTS have seen the most distant star ever, a million times as bright as our sun, 28 billion light years away.
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28billion light years away... the most distant star in the universe

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.

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