Zoom to The Sunrise Arc—Home to The Most Distant Star Detected | NASA Webb

Zoom to The Sunrise Arc—Home to The Most Distant Star Detected | NASA Webb

Travel 12.9 billion light years to the massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08, which 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—Earendel. The journey begins with a ground-based image by astrophotographer Akira Fujii, then transitions into a plate from the Digitized Sky Survey. Next, an image from the Dark Energy Camera on the Victor M. Blanco observatory appears, and then finally the video arrives at the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus.

Video Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Acknowledgments: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii DSS

Duration: 33 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 9, 2023

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