2. Earendel
Found Year: 2022
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made the discovery.
Where: in the constellation Cetus
In 2022, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made the discovery of the star WHL0137-LS, popularly referred to as Earendel. The star Earendel is the oldest and farthest known star, having formed in the first billion years following the Big Bang. There are 28 billion light-years separating us and the star.
Earendel ©NASA/Wikimedia
The Johns Hopkins University astronomer Brian Welch was the principal author of the discovery report that was printed in the journal Nature. Welch remarked, “It was so much farther than the previous most distant, highest redshift star that we almost didn’t believe it at first.” “Earendel may not have had all the same raw materials as the stars around us today because it existed so long ago.”
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