The James Webb Space Telescope has once again captured imagery of the furthest star ever detected — and revealed that it may not be alone.
, the latest imagery seems to indicate exactly that.
"Most massive stars that we know of have a companion, so we expected to see some evidence of that for Earendel," Welch told. "But it is more common for one star to be much fainter than the other, so we expected to have to dig a bit more to find evidence of a companion.", to be exact, some 12.9 billion light-years away — the discovery of Earendel itself was also unprecedented because of how Hubble and Webb were able to "see" it.
"Both Hubble and Webb were able to detect Earendel due to its lucky alignment behind a wrinkle in space-time created [a] massive galaxy cluster," NASA noted in its latest press release about the tar. "The galaxy cluster, located between us and Earendel, is so massive that it warps the fabric of space itself, which produces a magnifying effect, allowing astronomers to look through the cluster like a magnifying glass.
However you look at it, Earendel is incredible — and it clearly contains even more mysteries than meets the eye.
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