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Earendel: The Most Distant Individual Star Ever Observed by Humans

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Earendel is a massive star located in the Sunrise Arc galaxy, detected by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2022. It holds the record as the farthest individual star ever observed, situated approximately 28 billion light-years away from Earth. The star was spotted using a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where a galaxy cluster bent and amplified its light enough to make it visible. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope later confirmed and further studied the star. Earendel existed in the early universe, just 900 million years after the Big Bang.

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