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The most distant star ever found may have been misidentified: New research suggests that the object dubbed Earendel, which means “morning star” in Old English, may not be a single star but a cluster of stars – a group of stars bound together by gravity and formed from the same cloud of gas and dust.
The star, discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2022, was thought to have formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just 7% of its current age.
In a study published July 31 in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to perform a new analysis of Earendel. The goal was to explore the possibility that Earendel might not be a single star or binary system, as previously thought, but a compact star cluster.
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