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Galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+223. Highlighted is the position where the star LS1 appeared — its image magnified by a factor 2000 by gravitational microlensing.(NASA, ESA, S. Rodney (John Hopkins University, USA) and the FrontierSN team; T. Treu (University of California Los Angeles, USA), P. Kelly (University of California Berkeley, USA) and the GLASS team; J. Lotz (STScI) and the Frontier Fields team; M. Postman (STScI) and the CLASH team; and Z. Levay (STScI))

Discovered: Most Distant Star Seen (So Far)

April 4, 2018

The 2016 discovery of the most distant star ever seen – so far – has been outlined in a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. According to the study, the star, formally named 1) but nicknamed Icarus, is located about 9 billion light-years from Earth. This means light from the star started toward […]

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Discovered: Most Distant Star Seen (So Far)

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