The most distant single star yet dates back to less than 1 billion years after the universe’s birth in the Big Bang and may shed light on the earliest stars. Scientists nicknamed the star ‘Earendel’, from an Old English word meaning ‘morning star’ or ‘rising light’.Earendel, technical designation WHL0137-LS, is at least 50 times the mass of the Sun and millions of times as bright.
This newfound star is so far away that its light has taken 12.8 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to us as it was when the universe was
