Furthest Star ever Observed

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Icarus is located in a spiral galaxy that is so far from Earth that its light has taken 9000 million years to reach us. According to Patrick Kelly, a researcher from the University of Minnesota and leader of the team, 'This is the first time we've seen an individual star so far away. We can see very distant galaxies, but this star is a hundred times more distant than the next farthest star that we can observe, unless we include supernova explosions as stars.'


The Hubble Space Telescope discovers the most distant star ever observed
 
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Icarus is located in a spiral galaxy that is so far from Earth that its light has taken 9000 million years to reach us. According to Patrick Kelly, a researcher from the University of Minnesota and leader of the team, 'This is the first time we've seen an individual star so far away. We can see very distant galaxies, but this star is a hundred times more distant than the next farthest star that we can observe, unless we include supernova explosions as stars.'


The Hubble Space Telescope discovers the most distant star ever observed
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The mind boggles...

(How does a mind actually boggle? What does that mean??)
 
When you think that the star currently observed most likely burnt out to nothing a few billion years back then you can boggle.
 
9,000 Million years? It's probably gone nova by now... :lol:
 
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