This Famous Star Is a Total Fraud, Astronomers Say

Published on August 19, 2025
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of a massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08 contains the most strongly magnified galaxy known in the universe’s first billion years: the Sunrise Arc, and within that galaxy, the most distant star ever detected. In this image, the Sunrise Arc appears as a red streak just below the diffraction spike at the 5 o’clock position.

Earendel may not just be a single star, but a whole group of them.
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