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Earendel
WHL0137-LS, also known as Earendel, is a star cluster or a star located in the constellation of Cetus. Discovered in 2022 with the Hubble Space Telescope, it has a comoving distance of 28 billion light-years (8.6 billion parsecs), making it the most distant known star if it is a single object. The previous farthest known star, MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, also known as Icarus, at a comoving distance of , was discovered by Hubble in 2018. However, further observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the 2020s revealed that Earendel is more likely a star cluster. Objects like Earendel
intergalactic star
star not located within any galaxy
MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1
blue supergiant, the most distant star detected at 9 billion light years from Earth
HE 0437-5439
hypervelocity star in the constellation Dorado