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21 mar 2024 · The farthest star that's visible to the naked eye is V762 Cas, a variable star sitting a whopping 16,000 light-years away. Although it is likely 100,000 times more luminous than the sun, that...
8 sie 2023 · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang. Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun ...
30 mar 2022 · NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date.
This article documents the most distant astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified. For comparisons with the light travel distance of the astronomical objects listed below, the age of the universe since the Big Bang is currently estimated as 13.787±0.020 Gyr.
10 maj 2021 · Uranus, which has a prominent lunar system and its own rich set of rings, is the most distant naked-eye object in the Solar System. The farthest naked eye Solar System object, Uranus, is...
17 sie 2023 · Because the universe has expanded in the time it took this light to reach us, Earendel is now 28 billion light-years away from us. Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the...
4 sie 2022 · Essentially, Earendel, is the tiny whitish dot below a cluster of distant galaxies. By comparing the Hubble image with that captured by Webb, you can find the elusive Earendel.
