Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen

  • Released Wednesday, March 30, 2022
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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.

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

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 30, 2022.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 11:44 AM EDT.

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