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What about second breakfast? ⁣ ⁣ One image wasn't enough — we're eating up NASAWebb's second look at the star Earendel, first observed by NASAHubble. It's the farthest star ever detected, and Webb now shows it to be a massive B-type star, more than twice as hot as our Sun and about a million times more luminous. And based on the colors of Earendel’s light, scientists think it might have a smaller companion.⁣ ⁣ We can see it thanks to a galaxy cluster so massive, its gravity warps the fabric of space. This bends the light coming from behind it and produces an effect similar to looking through a magnifying lens. It's a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.⁣ ⁣ How far away is Earendel? The universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old. We're seeing the star as it existed within one billion years of the big bang.⁣ ⁣ Download the full-resolution uncompressed version from the Space Telescope Science Institute: webbtelescope.org/images⁣ ⁣ Image Descriptions:⁣ 1. A black backgr...

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