{"id":425533,"date":"2022-04-02T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/astronomers-discover-farthest-star-yet\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T13:50:01","slug":"astronomers-discover-farthest-star-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/astronomers-discover-farthest-star-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"#Astronomers discover farthest star yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29de0562dc5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29de0562dc5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/astronomers-discover-farthest-star-yet\/#%E2%80%9CAstronomers_discover_farthest_star_yet%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Astronomers discover farthest star yet&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAstronomers_discover_farthest_star_yet%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Astronomers discover farthest star yet&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/hubble-spots-most-dist-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/hubble-spots-most-dist-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Close-up of the tiny region where Earendel happened to fall right on top of the narrow line where the magnification increases by (tens of) thousands of times. A cluster of many stars is seen slightly offset from the line, resulting in a much smaller magnification but instead being mirrored by gravity. Credit: NASA\/ESA\/Brian Welch (JHU)\/Dan Coe (STScI)\/Peter Laursen (DAWN).\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/hubble-spots-most-dist-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears\" title=\"Close-up of the tiny region where Earendel happened to fall right on top of the narrow line where the magnification increases by (tens of) thousands of times. A cluster of many stars is seen slightly offset from the line, resulting in a much smaller magnification but instead being mirrored by gravity. Credit: NASA\/ESA\/Brian Welch (JHU)\/Dan Coe (STScI)\/Peter Laursen (DAWN).\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Close-up of the tiny region where Earendel h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to fall right on top of the narrow line where the magnification increases by (tens of) thousands of times. A cluster of many stars is seen slightly offset from the line, resulting in a much smaller magnification but instead being mirrored by gravity. Credit: NASA\/ESA\/Brian Welch (JHU)\/Dan Coe (STScI)\/Peter Laursen (DAWN).<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\">\n         <!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>But this luminous blue star is long gone, so massive that it almost certainly exploded into bits just a few million years after emerging. Its swift demise makes it all the more incredible that an international team spotted it with observations by the Hubble Space Telescope. It takes eons for light emitted from distant stars to reach us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing the star as it was about 12.8 billion years ago, which puts it about 900 million years after the Big Bang,&#8221; said astronomer Brian Welch, a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of the study appearing in Wednesday&#8217;s journal <i>Nature<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We definitely just got lucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He nicknamed it Earendel, an Old English name which means morning star or rising light\u2014&#8221;a fitting name for a star that we have observed in a time often referred to as `Cosmic Dawn.\u2032 &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The previous record-holder, Icarus, also a blue supergiant star spotted by Hubble, formed 9.4 billion years ago. That&#8217;s more than 4 billion years after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/twinkle-twinkle-astron.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/twinkle-twinkle-astron.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, shows the star Earendel, indicated by arrow, and the Sunrise Arc galaxy, stretching from lower left to upper right, optically bent due to a massive galaxy cluster between it and the Hubble Space Telescope which captured the light. The mass of the galaxy cluster serves as a magnifying glass, allowing Earendel to be seen. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI); Image processing: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI) via AP)\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/twinkle-twinkle-astron.jpg\" alt=\"Twinkle, twinkle: Astronomers discover farthest star yet\" title=\"This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, shows the star Earendel, indicated by arrow, and the Sunrise Arc galaxy, stretching from lower left to upper right, optically bent due to a massive galaxy cluster between it and the Hubble Space Telescope which captured the light. The mass of the galaxy cluster serves as a magnifying glass, allowing Earendel to be seen. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI); Image processing: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI) via AP)\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, shows the star Earendel, indicated by arrow, and the Sunrise Arc galaxy, stretching from lower left to upper right, optically bent due to a massive galaxy cluster between it and the Hubble Space Telescope which captured the light. The mass of the galaxy cluster serves as a magnifying glass, allowing Earendel to be seen. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI); Image processing: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI) via AP)<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In both instances, astronomers used a technique known as gravitational lensing to magnify the minuscule starlight. Gravity from clusters of galaxies closer to us\u2014in the foreground\u2014serve as a lens to magnify smaller objects in the background. If not for that, Icarus and Earendel would not have been discernible given their vast distances.<\/p>\n<p>While Hubble has spied galaxies as far away as 300 million to 400 million years of the universe-forming Big Bang, their individual stars are impossible to pick out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Usually they&#8217;re all smooshed together &#8230; But here, nature has given us this one star\u2014highly, highly magnified, magnified by factors of thousands\u2014so that we can study it,&#8221; said NASA astrophysicist Jane Rigby, who took part in the study. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a gift really from the universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius Placco of the National <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Foundation&#8217;s NOIRlab in Tucson, Arizona, described the findings as &#8220;amazing work.&#8221; He was not involved in the study.<\/p>\n<p>Placco said based on the Hubble data, Earendel may well have been among the first generation of stars born after the Big Bang. Future observations by the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope should provide more details, he said, and &#8220;provide us with another piece of this cosmic puzzle that is the evolution of our universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Current data indicate Earendel was more than 50 times the size of our sun and an estimated 1 million times brighter, outsizing Icarus. Earendel&#8217;s small, yet-to-mature home galaxy looked nothing like the pretty spiral galaxies photographed elsewhere by Hubble, according to Welch, but rather &#8220;kind of an awkward-looking, clumpy object.&#8221; Unlike Earendel, he said, this galaxy probably has survived, although in a different form after merging with other galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a little snapshot in amber of the past,&#8221; Rigby said.<\/p>\n<p>Earendel may have been the prominent star in a two-star, or binary, system, or even a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le- or quadruple-star system, Welch said. There&#8217;s a slight chance it could be a black hole, although the observations gathered in 2016 and 2019 suggest otherwise, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of its company, the star lasted barely a few million years before exploding as a supernova that went unobserved as most do, Welch said. The most distant supernova seen by astronomers to date goes back 12 billion years.<\/p>\n<p>The Webb telescope\u2014100 times more powerful than Hubble\u2014should help clarify how massive and hot the star really is, and reveal more about its parent galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>By studying stars, Rigby said: &#8220;We are literally understanding where we came from because we&#8217;re made up of some of that stardust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears\n                                        <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n                                                                                                <strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n                                                Brian Welch, A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2, <i>Nature<\/i> (2022).  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-022-04449-y\">DOI: 10.1038\/s41586-022-04449-y<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04449-y\">www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04449-y<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 The Associated Press. 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