Thanks fieldmarshaldj. This isn't strictly speaking a ST-related article, but probably still of interest
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Posted on 04/03/2018 6:39:08 AM PDT by C19fan
There are stars too faint to see in the night sky just a few light years away, yet a chance cosmic event gave us a glimpse of a star that would have otherwise been completely invisible due to its immense distance from Earth—a whopping 9 billion light-years away.
A paper today in Nature Astronomy reports the discovery of the star, called MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, or Icarus informally. Finding such a distant star is normally a tall order, but a larger object happened to pass in front of its home galaxy. When a large object passes in front of another, its gravitational well bends space around it and can act like a giant magnifying glass in the sky.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
Travel 670,616,629 mph for 9 billion years get you a close see.
...and when you get ‘there’ it will have gone nova long ago.........................
Did they pay their $54 to get their star name registered in book form at the US Patent Office?
That’s a good one!!!
It may be nonexistent already.
*ping*
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. This isn't strictly speaking a ST-related article, but probably still of interest
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