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The light from this star that astronomers just spotted is 12.9 billion years old

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The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the farthest star ever seen. The magnified galaxy looks like a stretched out red line with three dots. The single star is the middle one. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI))
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the farthest star ever seen. The magnified galaxy looks like a stretched out red line with three dots. The single star is the middle one. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI))

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