When discussing how far things are, time and space are inextricably linked. Now for a thought exercise to boggle the mind: ...

They've nicknamed it "Earendel" and it's the most distant, single star yet imaged by a telescope. The light from this object has taken 12.9 billion years to reach us. It's at the sort of distance ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image revealing the colors of Earendel, the farthest star ever detected. Earendel was first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope last year.