The farthest star currently found is Elendil

Mondo Science Updated on 2024-02-23

It is the farthest star ever observed, Elandil, discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2022.

Elendil: The farthest star ever discovered.

Elendil is 50 times the mass of the Sun, the universe was less than 1 billion years old when it was born, and what we see now is what it looked like 12.9 billion years ago. If you look at the solar system from its point of view. It will take 8.3 billion years for the sun's light to pass. Currently, sunlight only travels 4.6 billion light-years because the sun has only been born 4.6 billion years ago.

In fact, with the current level of human science and technology, there is no ability to see it, and the reason why we can see it is thanks to the accidental arrangement of a huge galaxy cluster, which just happened to produce a gravitational lensing effect, and the light emitted by 12.9 billion years ago was magnified just right, and it was successfully captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

At present, it is moving away from us at a speed of more than 280,000 kilometers per second, and now it is 28 billion light-years away, because of the amazing expansion rate of the universe itself, all galaxies are moving away from us, and the farther away from us, the faster the celestial bodies are farther away, perhaps no matter how human beings develop, they will not be able to reach the edge of the universe.

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