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Oldest and furthest star
May 2 , 2022
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- Earendel, a newly spotted star to be the most distant one to be seen until now.
- It is believed to be a whopping 12.9 billion light years away from us.
- It would be the discovery of one of the earliest stars, formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Gravitational lensing
- It was possible to see this particular star only because of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
- It is known that when light from a star or galaxy passes close to a massive object such as another galaxy, a black hole or any massive entity, it gets bent by gravity.
- Thus, the image of the source of the light may appear distorted from the original.
- This phenomenon is called gravitational lensing.
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