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#NASA and #jameswebbspacetelescope finds the most distant star #Earendel

It's name means wandering dawn/ personification of the dawn star in the proto Germanic; fitting for both the way we've found it and it being the most distant star from us.

This is so exciting as we've entered into a new era of #spaceexploration
In one hand we being the process of colonization and development, in the other our scientific tools pave the way for our understanding of the universe and ourself.

JWST Imaging of #Earendel, the Extremely Magnified Star at Redshift z=6.2 / JWST/NIRCam Probes Young Star Clusters in the Reionization Era Sunrise Arc: iopscience.iop.org/article/10. / iopscience.iop.org/article/10. -> Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected: webbtelescope.org/contents/new - a star *cluster* has been ruled out by the JWST pics but close companion stars remain possible. And still no Webb *spectrum* of the thing in hand or at least published.