{"id":169471,"date":"2023-08-11T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/webb-sheds-light-on-earendel-the-most-distant-star-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2023-08-11T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:22:50","slug":"webb-sheds-light-on-earendel-the-most-distant-star-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/webb-sheds-light-on-earendel-the-most-distant-star-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Webb sheds light on Earendel, the most distant star in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-sheds-light-on-earendel-the-most-distant-star-in-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Hubble Space Telescope made headlines by detecting the most distant star ever seen, a luminary from the universe\u2019s first billion years named \u201cEarendel.\u201d Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/webb.nasa.gov\/\">NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> has uncovered mesmerizing details about this intriguing star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hubble provided us a glimpse of Earendel, but the James Webb Space Telescope is now offering us a deep dive,\u201d said NASA. \u201cThese observations not only enlighten us about the star\u2019s nature but also about its host galaxy, the Sunrise Arc, and possibly about the early universe itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earendel is no ordinary star. Webb\u2019s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument paints a portrait of a massive B-type star, sizzling at temperatures twice as scorching as our Sun and radiating with a luminosity a million times more intense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Hubble Space Telescope made headlines by detecting the most distant star ever seen, a luminary from the universe\u2019s first billion years named \u201cEarendel.\u201d Now, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered mesmerizing details about this intriguing star. \u201cThe Hubble provided us a glimpse of Earendel, but the James Webb Space Telescope is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169471","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}