NASA to announce "one for the record books" Hubble discovery

They speak of "one for the record books" makes me suspect something already discovered, but with bigger attributes.
I going to guess either huge black hole in the void zone or the biggest star so far.

a reply to: alldaylong

I agree. And with the JWST reference, possibly a system with the highest number of potentially hospitable planets. It’s an absolute shame that the JWST wasn’t up and running before the end of the last decade. We have lost so much time and valuable research. It’s heartbreaking

a reply to: Spacespider

These would also be amazing discoveries, but correct me if I am wrong, I don’t think the JWST would be researching black holes

this maybe?
www.jpl.nasa.gov... ajpl&utm_content=daily20220318-1

originally posted by: sarahvital
this maybe?
www.jpl.nasa.gov... ajpl&utm_content=daily20220318-1

That is also cool, but I hope they not already spoiled it.
I like surprises

a reply to: gortex

i bet it will show a close black hole and the lensing effect it has up close.


or maybe they found a real dyson sphere

or maybe they found a dyson swarm

i think the worst thing to find would be an expanding area of darkness as suns are depleted super fast and moved on from.


i think if there is anything other than a type ll civ. out there they are all integrated to a enteral AI somehow.

its obviously don't dangerous or they would have said something so it cant be that bad.

Awesome!, I can't wait to see what they got.

originally posted by: gortex
The "exciting new observation" is shrouded in mystery and will likely remain so until next Wednesday (March 30) when NASA will announce their findings , they say it'll create an "exciting area of research" for James Webb when it's up and running in a couple of months.

A NASA statement promises "one for the record books" and an "exciting new observation" from the nearly 32-year-old telescope. It's tricky to guess what that discovery might be, given that the Hubble Space Telescope's work stretches from exoplanets to galaxies to measuring the expansion of the universe. (That last bit garnered the multiobservatory team a Nobel Prize.)

NASA has offered little other information beyond promising that the "Hubble result not only extends our understanding of the universe, but creates an exciting area of research for Hubble's future work with NASA's newly-launched James Webb Space Telescope."
www.space.com...

What is three days ago? "By Elizabeth Howell published 3 days ago"

The announcement has been made and the record breaking discovery is the most distant Star observed by Hubble so far , the Star has been named "Earendel" and is 12.9 billion light years away making it not only the most distant Star but also one of the earliest Stars in the Universe.

The most distant single star seen yet dates back to less than 1 billion years after the universe's birth in the Big Bang, and may shed light on the earliest stars in the cosmos, a new study finds.

The scientists nicknamed the star "Earendel" from an Old English word meaning "morning star" or "rising light." Earendel, whose technical designation is WHL0137-LS, is at least 50 times the mass of the sun and millions of times as bright.

This newfound star, detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to us as it was when the universe was about 900 million years old, just 7% of its current age. Until now, the most distant single star detected, discovered by Hubble in 2018, existed when the universe was about 4 billion years old, or 30% of its current age.

Earendel was able to be imaged thanks to gravitational lensing and is now high on the list of objects for Webb to take a look at when it's done being set up.

Scientists detected Earendel with the help of a huge galaxy cluster, WHL0137-08, sitting between Earth and the newfound star. The gravitational pull of this enormous galaxy cluster warped the fabric of space and time, resulting in a powerful natural magnifying glass that greatly amplified the light from distant objects behind the galaxy, such as Earendel. This gravitational lensing has distorted the light from the galaxy hosting Earendel into a long crescent the researchers named the Sunrise Arc.

The rare way in which Earendel aligned with WHL0137-08 meant that the star appeared directly on, or extremely close to, a curve in spacetime that provided maximum brightening, causing Earendel to stand out from the general glow of its home galaxy. This effect is analogous to the rippled surface of a swimming pool creating patterns of bright light on the bottom of the pool on a sunny day — the ripples on the surface act as lenses and focus sunlight to maximum brightness on the pool floor.
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a reply to: gortex

12.9 billion light years away....wow.
That's almost beyond comprehension.

I tried to turn that into actual miles....I broke my calculator,

a reply to: Freeborn

12.9 billion light years away....wow.
That's almost beyond comprehension.

Beyond comprehension indeed , I can't contemplate 1 Light Year let alone 12.9 billion of them.

a reply to: gortex

Its truly mind boggling.

It takes approximately 8.3minutes for light from the Sun to reach earth.
Light from Alpha Centauri - earths closest star system - takes 4,3 years.
Light from Sirius - the brightest star in our night sky - 9 years.
The farthest away star we can see with the naked eye is called V762 Cas. Light takes 16,308 years to reach Earth from there.

Light from this newly discovered star is nearly 785,000 times further away than that.

Will it ever be possible to 'see' light from the immediate after-effect of The Big Bang?
I'm sure I recall reading somewhere that the laws of physics as we currently understand them are not applicable immediately after The Big Bang?

a reply to: Freeborn

My calculator works a bit better. Maybe it's time to upgrade to a Ti 84

In my (very) rough estimation that is 75.8 OCTILLION miles away, or about 3 QUINTILLION circumnavigations of earth.

a reply to: andr3w68

That's made my brain hurt.

Can I have that numerically please?

As in a 7 and a 5 and an 8 then some zeros and commas to see if I get a nosebleed.

originally posted by: andr3w68
a reply to: Freeborn

My calculator works a bit better. Maybe it's time to upgrade to a Ti 84

In my (very) rough estimation that is 75.8 OCTILLION miles away, or about 3 QUINTILLION circumnavigations of earth.

We can detect a star 12.9 billion light-years away... but we haven't seen aliens yet?

Come on man!😂

a reply to: nonspecific

75,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mi

Meanwhile, a 200mi trip feels like forever to me.

wow, that's far.

don't they figure the universe is 14+ billion YO?

so we can't see farther or what? do we have to wait a few bil yrs to see more?

can someone behind us 2 billion light yrs away, see it too? wouldn't that make it 14+ bil yrs away?

i guess everything only within our distance from that star can see it.

my brain starts to melt thinking about this stuff.

a reply to: andr3w68

75,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mi

You forgot one triad of zeros. It goes thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion.

75,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mi.


Not that that makes it much easier or harder to comprehend...

TheRedneck

a reply to: TheRedneck

Ffff….

Welp, My apologies. We are all fallab… I mean, um, my mouse just randomly clicked the submit button before I was ready… oh yeah, and I typed everything but the numbers first.