Icarus appeared in outer space 9.5 billion years ago, reports Jake Parks for Astronomy. "At that time, it was 4 billion light-years away from the proto-Milky Way, but during the almost 13 billion years it took the light to reach us, the universe has expanded so that it is now a staggering 28 billion light-years away."Īstronomers suspect that Earendel is even older than Icarus, the previous record-holder detected by Hubble in 2018. "When the light that we see from Earendel was emitted, the universe was less than a billion years old," says study author Victoria Strait, an astronomer at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Denmark, in a statement. Earendel was described in a paper published this week in Nature. The study shines light on the youngest stars gleaming in the cosmos. Earendel is 8.2 billion years older than the Earth and sun and 12.1 billion years older than when the first animals appeared on the planet, reports Rafi Letzter for the Verge. Light from the star-dubbed Earendel from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning rising light or morning star-took 12.9 billion light-years to reach Earth and formed about 900 million years after the Big Bang. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the most distant single star ever detected in outer space.
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