Hubble Telescope detects star 28 billion light-years from Earth-Information Technology

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the most distant single star it has ever observed, 28 billion light-years from Earth. This star can be 50 to 500 times more massive than the Sun and millions of times brighter.

The Hubble telescope has discovered the most distant star ever, 28 billion light-years from Earth.

This is the farthest detection of a star, since 900 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers have nicknamed this star Earendel, from an Old English word meaning “morning star” or “rising light”.

This observation broke the record set by the Hubble space telescope itself in 2018 when it obtained an image of a star that existed when the universe was about 4 billion years old.

The Earendel observations could help astronomers study the early universe.

“When we look at the universe, we also look back in time,” said Victoria Strait, a PhD student at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen and co-author of the study. Thus, these extremely high-resolution observations allow us to understand the building blocks of some of the first galaxies.”