CAPE CANAVERAL (CBSMiami) – A new record-breaking image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been released.
On Wednesday, the agency shared an image of the most distant single star the telescope has ever detected.
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Astronomers who found it nicknamed it “Earendel,” which comes from the Old English word for “morning star” or “rising light.”
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“Earendel” as seen by the Hubble Telescope. (Source: NASA)
It’s glimmering 28-billion light years away.
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Scientists estimate it was created 900-million years after the big bang.
