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: Earendel is estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright.

In the archives of NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, the designation refers to a significant cosmic milestone: the discovery of Earendel , the farthest individual star ever seen . Here is the story behind that file: The Morning Star of the Universe 14125mp4

: Because it is so ancient, studying Earendel gives scientists a rare window into the "cosmic dawn"—the era when the very first stars were forming from primordial gases. : Earendel is estimated to be at least

Under normal circumstances, even our most powerful telescopes couldn't see a single star at such a staggering distance. However, a phenomenon called acted like a natural magnifying glass. The gravity of the foreground galaxy cluster warped and amplified the light of Earendel by thousands of times, stretching it into a long, thin crescent that astronomers nicknamed the "Sunrise Arc." The Significance of 14125 Under normal circumstances