Posted: Apr 11, 2018 4:21 pm
Today's APOD is a view of the best candidate for the most distant star observed hitherto from Earth/HST. It's been reported elsewhere many times recently and I was wondering if it would make it as a POD somewhere...
Fortuitous Flash Candidate for the Farthest Star Yet Seen
The gravitational lens is in a galaxy 5 billion light years away and the remote star is calculated to be in a galaxy at a distance of more than 9 billion light years!
astronomy.com source
Associated, brief, tube:
Fortuitous Flash Candidate for the Farthest Star Yet Seen
The gravitational lens is in a galaxy 5 billion light years away and the remote star is calculated to be in a galaxy at a distance of more than 9 billion light years!
...
The light from the record-breaking star, which the team has since nicknamed Icarus, was emitted just 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang.
...
astronomy.com source
Associated, brief, tube: