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nasa's hubble space telescope has

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established an extraordinary new

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benchmark detecting the light of a star

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that existed within the first billion

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years after the universe's birth in the

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big bang the farthest individual star

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ever seen to date

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the newly detected star is 12.9 billion

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light years away meaning that the light

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took 12.9 billion years to reach earth

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the previous record was 9 billion light

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years away

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normally at these distances entire

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galaxies look like small dim smudges

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with the light from millions of stars

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blending together

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but the galaxy hosting this star was

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magnified and distorted by gravitational

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lensing into a long crescent that

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astronomers named the sunrise arc

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gravitational lensing occurs when a

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tremendous mass warps the fabric of

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space creating a powerful natural

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magnifying glass that distorts and

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greatly amplifies the light from distant

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objects behind it

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the combined mass of a foreground group

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of galaxies created a lens that allowed

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astronomers to see this distant star

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after studying the galaxy in detail they

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determined that one feature is an

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extremely magnified star that they

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called arendelle which means morning

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star in old english

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the research team estimates that arundel

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is at least 50 times the mass of our sun

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and millions of times as bright rivaling

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the most massive stars known

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a rendell existed so long ago that it

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may not have had all the same raw

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materials as the stars around us today

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studying arundel will be a window into

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an era of the universe that we are