Bad Astronomy | Farthest star ever seen almost 13 billion light-years away
Staring at the same spot in the sky for the better part of a day, Hubble Space Telescope — aided by a quirk of gravity that can massively magnify distant objects — may have spotted the most distant star ever seen… by a huge margin. If confirmed, the star is nearly 13 billion light years away, and we see it as it was when the Universe was only 900 million years old. If confirmed, this is the farthest star in the Universe ever seen by humans.
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