Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected

A black background is scattered with hundreds of small galaxies of different shapes, ranging in color from white to yellow to red. Just a bit above the center, there is a bright source of light, a star, with 8 bright diffraction spikes extending out.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang.

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