{"id":137526,"date":"2022-03-30T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/meet-earendel-the-most-distant-star-astronomers-have-observed"},"modified":"2022-03-30T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:06:03","slug":"meet-earendel-the-most-distant-star-astronomers-have-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/meet-earendel-the-most-distant-star-astronomers-have-observed","title":{"rendered":"Meet Earendel, the Most Distant Star Astronomers Have Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-earendel-the-most-distant-star-astronomers-have-observed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a single star whose light has traveled for 12.9 billion years to Earth, having come from a universe just 900 million years old. It\u2019s currently the most distant star known, and the team has dubbed it Earendel<a href=\"https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/astronomy-news\/meet-earendel-most-distant-star-astronomers-have-observed\/#footnote\">*<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery is a huge jump, as the previous record-holder for more distant star existed in a universe 4 billion years old.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic observatory had some help from nature\u2019s own optics: The vast mass of a foreground cluster of galaxies, sitting just so between us and the distant star, acts like a lens, its gravity magnifying the star\u2019s light thousands-fold. The discovery is published in the March 31st <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04449-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a single star whose light has traveled for 12.9 billion years to Earth, having come from a universe just 900 million years old. It\u2019s currently the most distant star known, and the team has dubbed it Earendel*. The discovery is a huge jump, as the previous record-holder for more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}