SETI Live: Meet Earendel, Most Distant Star Observed

Back in March 2022, the Hubble Space Telescope team announced the observation of the furthest ever star detected. That star, nicknamed Earendel, was detected from light that look 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, when the universe was only 7 percent of its current age. This ancient star breaks the record of the previous most-distant star by several billion years. The discovery of Earendel was made using data collected by Hubble's RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey) program, led by astronomer Dan Coe from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The paper on the find was published in Nature.

Join lead author Brian Welch, previously a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University who recently graduated, as well as Dan Coe, astronomer at STScI, as they discuss this amazing new discovery with senior astronomer Franck Marchis.

Press release: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-003
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04449-y
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