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> Yet the "farthest star" article says the farthest star is only 9 billion light years away I think you completely misread the article. This is the farthest st
by morganvachon 9y ago
> Yet the "farthest star" article says the farthest star is only 9 billion light years away
I think you completely misread the article. This is the farthest star we've been able to observe directly at its normal luminescence, as in, not a supernova. Granted, it is due to gravitational lensing.
The article never says this is the farthest star that exists, simply the farthest (by far) that we've been able to directly observe.
- euyyn 9y agoWhat are the farthest stars we've been able to detect?
- morganvachon 9y agoThe farthest directly observed objects are galaxies and quasars, to about 13 billion light years from us. We have indirect evidence of individual stars that far out, but prior to this discovery the farthest directly observed star[1] (SDSS J1229+1122) was 55 million light years away, so this is quite a leap. [1] http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-most-distant-star-everseen/ http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-most-dista...