# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CvvGjHvJp3-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8202899-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-08-09T19:42:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

What about second breakfast? ⁣
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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.⁣
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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.⁣
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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.⁣
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Download the full-resolution uncompressed version from the Space Telescope Science Institute: https://webbtelescope.org/images⁣
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Image Descriptions:⁣
1. A black background is scattered with hundreds of small galaxies of different shapes and colors. Some galaxies are distorted. Just a bit above the center, there is a bright source of light, a star with 8 bright diffraction spikes extending out from it. Below the star are several noticeably fuzzy white galaxies that resemble cotton balls. These are part of a galaxy cluster. To the lower right of the star is a long, red, thin line stretching from one o’clock to 7 o’clock, outlined in a white inset box. This is the Sunrise Arc galaxy.⁣
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2. A close-up of the box highlighting the Sunrise Arc. Several bright dots, some thicker than others, are along the long red line, with one labeled as Earendel. Other galaxies (blobs, dots and disks in white or red) fill the background.⁣
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Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe (STScI/AURA for ESA; Johns Hopkins University), B. Welch (NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center; University of Maryland, College Park). Image processing: Z. Levay.⁣
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#Tolkien #SecondBreakfast #Stars #JWST #Webb #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #Space #NASA

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