International researchers say they have discovered the most distant star ever, which is about 12.9 billion light-years from Earth.
The research team includes astronomers from Japan's Chiba University. They used the Hubble Space Telescope to find the star, which they estimate to be at least 50 times the mass of the sun.
The researchers say they located it about four billion light-years farther away than the previous record for a distant star observed.
They say they were able to discern the single star within a galaxy due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, which made the star appear brighter.
The distance indicates the star existed 12.9 billion years ago, or about 900 million years after the Big Bang gave birth to the universe.
The discovery is expected to provide clues about how stars evolved in the early stages of the universe.
The research team includes astronomers from Japan's Chiba University. They used the Hubble Space Telescope to find the star, which they estimate to be at least 50 times the mass of the sun.
The researchers say they located it about four billion light-years farther away than the previous record for a distant star observed.
They say they were able to discern the single star within a galaxy due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, which made the star appear brighter.
The distance indicates the star existed 12.9 billion years ago, or about 900 million years after the Big Bang gave birth to the universe.
The discovery is expected to provide clues about how stars evolved in the early stages of the universe.
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International researchers, including astronomers from Japan's Chiba University, discovered the most distant star ever at approximately 12.9 billion light-years from Earth. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, they found a star estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of the sun. The team located it
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URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220404_06/
Date: April 4, 2022
Created: 2022/04/04 18:16
Updated: 2025/12/09 17:13
Last Read: 2022/04/04 18:16