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Breaking News ๐Ÿ“ฃ #Hubble breaks new record detecting the most distant individual star ever seen. Nicknamed Earendel by the authors, this star existed within the first billion years after the Universeโ€™s birth in the Big Bang ๐ŸŽ†

Full story: ๐Ÿ”— esahubble.org/news/heic2203/

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๐Ÿ“Œ The newly detected star is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to us as it did when the Universe was only 7% of its current age.
๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ "Itโ€™s like weโ€™ve been reading a really interesting book, but we started with the 2nd chapter & now we will have a chance to see how it all got started,โ€ said astronomer Brian Welch of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, lead author of the paper
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