BBCNEWS BBC News March 31, 2022 01:25:00
In the centre of the screen? it is a crescent of light that has been dubbed the sunrise arc. almost hidden away inside it, barely a smudge, is a star, the most distant star we have ever seen. they have called it earendel, old english for morning star. and it came into creation less than a billion years after the big bang. the hubble can see that far back into the distance and so it is seeing the light that is basically being emitted right now by that star, where the light that we are seeing here on earth was created 12.9 billion years ago. normally, a single star at that distance would be impo...
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