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  • Astronomers Use a Quirk of Physics to Spot the Most Distant Star Ever Seen

    04/03/2018 6:39:08 AM PDT · by C19fan · 7 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | April 2, 2018 | John Wenz
    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...