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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.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope broke yet another record by spotting the farthest star ever seen in the universe. Its light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth.

Scientists said they were surprised by the distance of the star, which they have named Earendel.

The Hubble Space Telescope may have spotted the most distant star to date — 12.9 billion light-years away..

The light from this star was produced when the universe was 900 million years old, according to a team from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, who used Hubble to observe the telescope.