{"id":30172,"date":"2018-10-26T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30172"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:02:06","slug":"nasa-spots-farthest-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-spots-farthest-star\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA spots farthest star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/nasa-spots-farthest-star\/article23428868.ece\"><strong>NASA spots farthest star<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the farthest individual star ever seen \u2014 an enormous blue stellar body nicknamed Icarus located over halfway across the universe<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 billion years <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The star, located in a very distant spiral galaxy, is so far away that its light has taken nine billion years to reach Earth. It appears to us as it did when the universe was about 30% of its current age<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gravitational lensing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing (This is when gravity from a massive celestial object acts like a magnifying glass, bending and amplifying the light from objects behind it) that tremendously amplifies the star\u2019s feeble glow, astronomers were able to pinpoint this faraway star and set a new distance record<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Icarus will be a reference point for how astronomers can study the evolution of stars through gravitational lensing<\/li>\n<li>Icarus&#8217;s bright glow is also helping astronomers test hypotheses about dark matter\u2014the elusive material that&#8217;s thought to make up most of the mass in the universe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA spots farthest star Context NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the farthest individual star ever seen \u2014 an enormous blue stellar body nicknamed Icarus located over halfway across the universe 9 billion years The star, located in a very distant spiral galaxy, is so far away that its light has taken nine billion years&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-spots-farthest-star\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA spots farthest star<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704868563},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}