Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen

  • Released Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 11:44AM
  • ID: 14125

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.

For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.

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“Beautiful Planet” by Andreas Andreas Bolldén [STIM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.

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