Paris, March 31: The Hubble Space Telescope has found the most distant individual star ever seen whose light needed 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. “The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the Universe’s birth in the Big Bang (at a redshift of 6.2) — the most distant individual star ever seen,” ESA said in a statement on Wednesday. The star, which is called Earendel, appears to the scientists how it looked when the universe was 7 percent of its current age. Hubble, which is a joint project of NASA and ESA, is one of the biggest space telescopes in the world that was launched in 1990. (UNI/Sputnik)
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