MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1
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macs-j1149-lensed-star-1-295-5479219
title:
MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1
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MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, also known as Icarus, is a blue supergiant star observed through a gravitational lens. It is the seventh most distant individual star to have been detected so far, at approximately 14 billion light-years from Earth. Light from the star was emitted 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang. According to co-discoverer Patrick Kelly, the star is at least a hundred times more distant than the next-farthest non-supernova star observed, SDSS J1229+1122, and is the first magnified
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description:
Blue supergiant and second most distant star from earth detected in the constellation Leo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACS_J1149_Lensed_Star_1
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date modified:
2024-02-18T14:07:04Z
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13
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