Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected (IMAGE)

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Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected

Caption

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of a massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08 contains the most strongly magnified galaxy known in the universe’s first billion years: the Sunrise Arc, and within that galaxy, the most distant star ever detected. In this image, the Sunrise Arc appears as a red streak just below the diffraction spike at the 5 o’clock position. Download the full-resolution, uncompressed version from the Space Telescope Science Institute: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01H6BZATACCHGMV59CCH4Y8JC6

Credit

Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe (STScI/AURA for ESA; Johns Hopkins University), B. Welch (NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center; University of Maryland, College Park). Image processing: Z. Levay.

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