Lone Ranger Hubble Telescope Gives A Glimpse Of The Farthest Star Ever Seen Fifty Times The Mass Of The Sun

The Hubble Telescope has been the lone ranger for many decades and has been peering deeper into the vast expanse of space. Hubble has made several epoch discoveries and the latest is a Star which is said to be the farthest from Earth and has a mass almost fifty times the mass of Sun.

The farthest star is so far away that light takes 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, revealed NASA. Goiving out the details of the star NASA said that the star named Earendel was in existence when the Universe was 4 billion years old or 30% the present age of the universe. The fact that light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth meant that it allowed scientists to see what the star looked like when it was just 7% of its present age.

So it allowed the astronomers to know how the Universe looked when it was a few billion years in existence. It means that the Universe was very young

The researchers were led by Astronomer Brian Welch of Johns Hopkins University. Astronomers came to the conclusion by checking the red shift of light from the distant star. Red Shift is the shift in red light of the visible spectrum as the universe expands. The farthest the star the greater is the red shift.

The astronomers used the using data during Hubble’s RELICS (Reionisation Lensing Cluster Survey) program and through a process called gravitational lensing. Gravitional Lensing is the process of warping of space due to intense gravitational force. The process creates a huge natural magnifying glass that distorts and greatly amplifies the light from distant objects behind it.