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Earendel

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Earendel
Picture: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe (AURA/STScI for ESA), Z. Levay, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

About Earendel

The light we see from it set out 12.9 billion years ago, when the universe was 0.891 billion years old (redshift 6.2).

The map lists it as a star (lensed star) and shows it at the scale of the large-scale universe, drawn on the supergalactic plane.

Its distance or nature is debated, and the map shows one published value.

The most distant single star claimed, magnified by a galaxy cluster. Whether it is one star or a star cluster is debated.

Key numbers

Distance (comoving, today)27.8 billion light-years (8,509 Mpc)
Redshift z6.2
Light travel time12.9 billion years
Universe's age when this light left0.891 billion years
Distance methodredshift (Planck 2018 cosmology)
Supergalactic coordinatesSGL 291.0°, SGB -12.4°

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Observable universe, a view about 100 billion light-years across.

From Wikipedia

Earendel, designated WHL0137-LS, is a star cluster or a star located in the constellation of Cetus. Discovered in 2022 with the Hubble Space Telescope, it has a comoving distance of 28 billion light-years, making it the most distant known star if it is a single object.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Earendel (astronomical object), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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