Scientists accidentally find an old star about 13 billion years old!

Scientists have discovered an old star that is 12 billion and 900 million years old, monitored by the famous "Hubble" telescope.

An astronomical coincidence allowed scientists, to look back in time to billions of years, to discover a star that formed 12 billion and 900 million years ago, spotted by the famous “Hubble” telescope, through unusual ripples, which emerged from the distortion of the space-time fabric, so they called it “the morning star.” Or Earendel in medieval English, because he shone with light very early, in the first billion years after the Big Bang, that is, when the universe was a baby crawling, barely 7% of its present age of 13 billion and 800 million years.

 The most distant star ever has a mass of 50 times the mass of the sun, but it is millions of times brighter than it, according to astronomer Brian Welch, a researcher from Johns Hopkins University and lead author of a research paper published yesterday by the prestigious British scientific journal Nature.  

Previously, Icarus, known in the “Lion constellation” as a blue giant, was the farthest star that human eyes have seen with telescopes, as it is 9 billion light-years away from Earth, and it was formed when the universe was approximately 4 billion years old, or 30% of its current age.

As for the newly discovered "Erndel", Ford said in a statement from NASA that it is "one of the record books" with a dimension of 28 billion light years.

Dr. Welch was apparently impressed by the star, and said: “We almost did not believe it (the dimension), it made it seem as if we were reading an interesting book, but we started with the second chapter, and now we have a chance to see how it all began,” referring to the emergence of the universe. How did he come into being with the big bang?

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