Icarus (star)
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Icarus is the popular name for a blue supergiant star, that was the most distant star yet to be detected.[1] It was found at approximately 9 billion lightyears.
In March 30, 2022, Earendel, an even more distant star was discovered, that was 12.9 billion lightyears away from Planet Earth.[1] Both stars were only detectable through exploiting naturally forming Gravitational lenses, caused by the mass of massive galactic clusters that lie between Earth and the target star.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Move over, Icarus. Hubble finds Earendel, the farthest star from Earth, PBS Newshour, 2022-03-30. Retrieved on 2022-03-30. “The previous record-holder, Icarus, also a blue supergiant star spotted by Hubble, formed 9.4 billion years ago. That’s more than 4 billion years after the Big Bang.”