Imaging recource: Hubble spots the farthest star ever seen, whose light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth

Earlier this week, NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had spotted the farthest star ever seen. The ESA writes, 'NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe's birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date.' To put that into perspective, the light from the newly-spotted star took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth. When the light that reached Hubble left the star, the...
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