{"id":138043,"date":"2022-04-12T22:02:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/nasa-recently-found-the-farthest-star-ever-seen-thanks-to-a-ripple-of-space-time"},"modified":"2022-04-12T22:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:02:28","slug":"nasa-recently-found-the-farthest-star-ever-seen-thanks-to-a-ripple-of-space-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/nasa-recently-found-the-farthest-star-ever-seen-thanks-to-a-ripple-of-space-time","title":{"rendered":"NASA Recently Found the Farthest Star Ever Seen, Thanks to a Ripple of Space-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like something out of a sci-fi movie<\/a>, the Hubble Space Telescope discovered the most distant star ever seen\u2014through a cosmic fluke.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed \u201cEarendel,\u201d the star\u2019s light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, and scientists believe it emitted light throughout the first billion years of our universe\u2019s<\/a> existence. Beside its age, Earendel\u2019s position is also curious. According to NASA, Hubble was able to detect the star thanks to gravitational lensing<\/a>, a phenomenon in which a massive object (like a galaxy) warps the fabric of space<\/a>. When light reaches the warped space, it can act like a magnifying glass and highlight objects we\u2019d otherwise have a difficult time seeing.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s how Earendel\u2014whose Old English name is akin to \u201cmorning star\u201d or \u201crising light\u201d\u2014was found (though Tolkien<\/a> fans will recognize it as a riff on E\u00e4rendil, the half-Elven seafarer who carried a Silmaril).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like something out of a sci-fi movie, the Hubble Space Telescope discovered the most distant star ever seen\u2014through a cosmic fluke. Nicknamed \u201cEarendel,\u201d the star\u2019s light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, and scientists believe it emitted light throughout the first billion years of our universe\u2019s existence. Beside its age, Earendel\u2019s position is also [\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-138043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138043","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=138043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}