NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang. Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous.

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    Galadriel: And for you, Frodo Baggins, I give you the light of my daughter’s husband’s father

    Frodo: So what does that make us?

    Galadriel: Absolutely nothing