Highly magnified star Earendel. The collection of yellow-looking galaxies form the massive galaxy-cluster lens that magnifies background objects lying behind it. The inset shows the highly magnified red galaxy, host to Earendel, stretched into an arc due to lensing, and the highly magnified star is marked with a white arrow.  CREDITS:  SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI)  IMAGE PROCESSING: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

(Français) Johns Hopkins U. et BGU : record battu, Hubble repère Earendel, l’étoile la plus éloignée jamais vue

In a collaboration including researchers from Ben-Gurion University, the Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star...

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