CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— Astronomers have discovered a star farther than has ever been detected, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.... That light was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The previous record-holder, Icarus, also a blue supergiant star spotted by Hubble, formed 9.4 billion years ago.... That’s more than 4 billion years after the Big Bang....

--Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos. But this luminous blue star is long gone, so massive that it almost certainly exploded into bits just a few million years after emerging.... Gravity from clusters of galaxies closer to us — in the foreground — serve as a lens to magnify smaller objects in the background.... There’s a slight chance it could be a black hole, although the observat

Зеркало Hubble (слева) и James Webb (справа) в одном масштабе. Источник изображения: esa Париж.