But the Hubble space observatory has picked out Earendel individually by exploiting a natural phenomenon that's akin to using a zoom lens. It's called gravitational lensing and it works like this ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has set an extraordinary ... one of the elements is an extremely magnified star that he called Earendel, which means “morning star” in ancient English.

"Earendel" is the most distant, single star yet imaged by a telescope Hubble has been a hugely productive astronomical tool. Over its career to date it has made more than 1.5 million observations ...

Earendel was first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope last year. It's more than twice as hot as the sun, and "about a million times more luminous," NASA said in a press release last week.

Hubble continues to make significant discoveries, including in 2022 when it detected the farthest individual star ever seen -- Earendel, whose light took 12.9 billion years to reach us.