Its light traveled roughly 9 billion years before reaching Earth. Meet Icarus, the gravitationally magnified blue supergiant that was once the most distant individual star ever detected.
In this video:
- How gravitational lensing revealed Icarus
- What the universe was like about 9 billion years ago
- Why looking deep into space means looking into the past
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