Beijing time:2022-03-31 10:46
【NTDTV, Beijing time, March 31, 2022】Where is the farthest star from humans? NASA’s Hubble Telescope just broke its own record.
The super star, named “Earendel” (meaning “Morning Star”) by astronomers, is the farthest star ever discovered by humans, about 12.8 billion light-years away from the earth. Scientists believe that it formed in In the early days after the Big Bang, the universe was at least 50 times the mass of the sun and about 1 million times brighter than the sun.
Astronomers predict that this new “farthest” record may soon be broken.
Johns Hopkins researcher Welch: “As for breaking this distance record, there are plans to look at many galaxy clusters through the Webb[telescope]and look for similar objects at more distant distances, so I hope this record will not be will last too long.”
The farthest star known to mankind before was the discovery of “Icarus” in 2018. It is also a blue supergiant star discovered by the Hubble telescope and formed 9.4 billion years ago.
Comprehensive report by NTD reporter Qiao An
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