1 00:00:00,299 --> 00:00:04,440 foreign 2 00:00:15,709 --> 00:00:12,370 [Music] 3 00:00:17,930 --> 00:00:15,719 Space Telescope of the sunrise Arc which 4 00:00:19,970 --> 00:00:17,940 is this long red banana that you can see 5 00:00:21,830 --> 00:00:19,980 on the the screen right there and then 6 00:00:25,130 --> 00:00:21,840 what's highlighted by that white arrow 7 00:00:26,750 --> 00:00:25,140 is the lens star arendo which is the 8 00:00:28,970 --> 00:00:26,760 most distant star that's been observed 9 00:00:32,810 --> 00:00:28,980 so far so we're seeing this entire 10 00:00:34,010 --> 00:00:32,820 galaxy as it was about 13 billion years 11 00:00:36,229 --> 00:00:34,020 ago 12 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:36,239 this particular Discovery was thanks to 13 00:00:39,590 --> 00:00:38,160 gravitational lensing so what you can 14 00:00:41,450 --> 00:00:39,600 kind of see in the background here with 15 00:00:43,490 --> 00:00:41,460 all these sort of yellowish galaxies 16 00:00:45,770 --> 00:00:43,500 those are all galaxies that are part of 17 00:00:47,690 --> 00:00:45,780 a galaxy cluster and this galaxy cluster 18 00:00:50,150 --> 00:00:47,700 is a very massive object that actually 19 00:00:51,470 --> 00:00:50,160 bends the the space time around it and 20 00:00:53,810 --> 00:00:51,480 as the light from this distant Galaxy 21 00:00:56,990 --> 00:00:53,820 passes through that distorted space time 22 00:00:58,970 --> 00:00:57,000 it gets magnified and stretched out into 23 00:01:00,709 --> 00:00:58,980 this long Arc that we see 24 00:01:03,110 --> 00:01:00,719 because of exactly where all these 25 00:01:04,910 --> 00:01:03,120 galaxies are there is a peak right here 26 00:01:07,490 --> 00:01:04,920 right on this point where the 27 00:01:09,109 --> 00:01:07,500 magnification starts to to Skyrocket so 28 00:01:10,670 --> 00:01:09,119 it starts to become an incredibly High 29 00:01:12,170 --> 00:01:10,680 magnification just right in that spot 30 00:01:15,350 --> 00:01:12,180 and that's how we're able to see this 31 00:01:17,450 --> 00:01:15,360 one star original image looks like this 32 00:01:19,070 --> 00:01:17,460 so this is where you can see you know 33 00:01:21,590 --> 00:01:19,080 all of these sort of fuzzy yellow 34 00:01:22,969 --> 00:01:21,600 galaxies around here form a pretty clear 35 00:01:25,190 --> 00:01:22,979 cluster 36 00:01:28,190 --> 00:01:25,200 you can still kind of see this faint red 37 00:01:29,749 --> 00:01:28,200 Arc down here at the bottom and that was 38 00:01:31,550 --> 00:01:29,759 what piqued our interest originally 39 00:01:33,530 --> 00:01:31,560 anything that's that red is going to be 40 00:01:35,270 --> 00:01:33,540 at a very high red shift which means 41 00:01:37,490 --> 00:01:35,280 it's very early in the universe so that 42 00:01:39,170 --> 00:01:37,500 was kind of why we first got interested 43 00:01:41,929 --> 00:01:39,180 you can also see just kind of how long 44 00:01:44,929 --> 00:01:41,939 this object is so this is the the 45 00:01:46,789 --> 00:01:44,939 longest lensed Arc that we've seen at 46 00:01:48,410 --> 00:01:46,799 redshift six or above so that's within 47 00:01:51,289 --> 00:01:48,420 the first billion years of the universe 48 00:01:53,929 --> 00:01:51,299 and it kind of opens the door to looking 49 00:01:56,630 --> 00:01:53,939 at the very first generation of stars so 50 00:01:58,249 --> 00:01:56,640 very first Stars would form you know a 51 00:01:59,569 --> 00:01:58,259 few hundred million years maybe one to 52 00:02:01,609 --> 00:01:59,579 three hundred million years after the 53 00:02:03,289 --> 00:02:01,619 big bang is kind of that ballpark so 54 00:02:05,569 --> 00:02:03,299 this kind of gives us a foot in that 55 00:02:07,789 --> 00:02:05,579 door that gives us a really good chance 56 00:02:09,529 --> 00:02:07,799 to continue to discover more of these 57 00:02:11,390 --> 00:02:09,539 objects and you know hopefully push that 58 00:02:13,130 --> 00:02:11,400 boundary a little bit further and really 59 00:02:15,350 --> 00:02:13,140 get a chance to to find one of the very