BBCNEWS BBC News March 31, 2022 12:54:00
A new record for capturing a picture of a single, distant star. the light from the giant sun has taken nearly 13 billion years to reach us. in cosmic terms it almost dates back to the big bang. tim allman reports. for more than 30 years, the hubble space telescope has been orbiting the earth, scanning the cosmos, looking for the unknown, the extraordinary, the seemingly impossible. its latest discovery, perhaps its most amazing yet, a celestial object that is a long, long, long way away. you see that red stripe in the centre of the screen? it is a crescent of light that has been dubbed the sun...