The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported on Friday that the company-owned Hubble Space Telescope discovered the farthest star observed to date, Earendel, located at 12.9 billion of light years
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According to NASA, the celestial body found registers a size 50 times greater than the Sun, and a temperature equivalent to 20,000 degrees; In addition, the date of its existence dates back at least 900 million years after the great explosion, Big Bang.
Likewise, the data referenced by scientists estimated that the Earendel star came from the original era of the universe, known as a red shift of 1.5; the term refers to the expansion of the cosmos causing light from objects to shift to longer, redder wavelengths as it travels toward Earth.
In that sense, scientists point out that Earendel already existed when the universe marked 30 percent of its current age; Thus, although the newly discovered star is dead, the finding is described by NASA as historic, amazing and unprecedented.
“We don’t know how long it lived, but surely less than 100 million years, which is very little compared to other stars like the Sun that can live 100 times longer; the light from its explosion has not yet reached us, but it is on its way and will arrive within the next 100 million years at the most”, specified the astronomer from the Institute of Physics of Cantabria, José María Diego.
On the other hand, the astronomer at Johns Hopkins University, Brian Welch, named the newly detected star of light as Earendel, an old English term for morning star; after an exhaustive study of the galaxy, communicating that the novel discovery will drive an unexplored period of star formation.