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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Hubble Space Telescope spots the farthest star ever seen thanks to quirk of nature

  Mian Adeel Soomro       Tuesday, April 3, 2018
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Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted the most distant star ever studied thanks to some cosmic luck.

The star, named Lensed Star 1 (LS1 for short), was born about 9 billion years ago and is thought to be a huge, blue star with a surface temperature ranging from 11,000 degrees Celsius to 14,000 degrees Celsius. This makes the star more than twice as hot as our sun, NASA said in a statement.

Under normal circumstances we wouldn't be able to see LS1 using even the most advanced tools, but thanks to a coincidence and some convenient physics, the Hubble was able to observe the distant object. Read more...

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