{"id":24837,"date":"2022-04-06T04:56:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T04:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24837"},"modified":"2022-04-06T04:56:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T04:56:27","slug":"earendel-a-star-in-the-early-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24837","title":{"rendered":"Earendel: A Star in the Early Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2204\/LensedStar_Hubble_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Is Earendel the farthest star yet discovered? This scientific possibility started when the Hubble Space Telescope observed a huge cluster of galaxies. The gravitational lens effect\u00c2\u00a0of this cluster was seen to magnify and distort a galaxy far in the background. This distorted background galaxy &#8212; so far away it has a redshift of 6.2 &#8212; appears in the featured image as a long red string, while beads on that string are likely to be star clusters.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The galaxy cluster lens creates a line of maximum magnification line where superposed background objects may appear magnified many thousands of times. On the intersection between the galaxy line and the maximum magnification line is one &#8220;bead&#8221; which shows evidence of originating from a single bright star in the early universe &#8212; now named Earendel. Future investigations may include more imaging\u00c2\u00a0by Hubble to see how Earendel&#8217;s brightness varies, and, quite possibly, by the new James Webb Space Telescope when it becomes operational later this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Earendel&#8217;s great distance exceeds that of any known stable star &#8212; although the star that exploded creating GRB 090423 had a redshift of 8.2. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220406.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Earendel the farthest star yet discovered? This scientific possibility started when the Hubble Space Telescope observed a huge cluster of galaxies. The gravitational lens effect\u00c2\u00a0of this cluster was seen <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24837\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24838,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24837\/revisions\/24838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}