Farthest Star Ever Discovered by Hubble Space Telescope
Meet Earendel, our Stellar Ancestor
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13 min readMay 24, 2022
The universe as we understand it, is 13.7 billion years old. This figure was calculated by studying the Big Bang, otherwise known as the most widely accepted theory for the origin of the universe. The theory states that from an infinitesimally small, dense point of space at the beginning of time — known as a…
