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If you are interested in seeing the visualization of this "morning star," you can find the high-resolution media on the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio page.

: Earendel is estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright. 14125mp4

: Because it is so ancient, studying Earendel gives scientists a rare window into the "cosmic dawn"—the era when the very first stars were forming from primordial gases. If you are interested in seeing the visualization

The video produced under the ID 14125 documents this record-breaking moment. It shows: The video produced under the ID 14125 documents

The name Earendel comes from an Old English word meaning "morning star" or "rising light." When the Hubble Space Telescope looked toward a massive galaxy cluster named WHL0137-08, it wasn't just looking at stars; it was looking back across of time. A Cosmic Trick of Light

: The light Hubble captured left the star when the universe was only 7% of its current age.