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The name Earendel comes from an Old English word meaning "morning star" or "rising light." When the Hubble Space Telescope looked toward a massive galaxy cluster named WHL0137-08, it wasn't just looking at stars; it was looking back across of time. A Cosmic Trick of Light
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: Earendel is estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright. The name Earendel comes from an Old English
: The light Hubble captured left the star when the universe was only 7% of its current age. : The light Hubble captured left the star
In the archives of NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, the designation refers to a significant cosmic milestone: the discovery of Earendel , the farthest individual star ever seen . Here is the story behind that file: The Morning Star of the Universe