ALL THE DETAILS on Earendel: a star 12.9 billion light years away seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
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Welch, Coe et al. (2022; free to read) - https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01FX61F3N...
Archive of approved Hubble Space Telescope proposals: https://www.stsci.edu/ftp/presto/ops/...
Archive of approved JWST programs: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-ex...
RELICS HST public observing planning file:
https://www.stsci.edu/hst/phase2-publ...
Earendel HST monitoring public observing planning file: https://www.stsci.edu/hst/phase2-publ...
Earendel JWST public observing planning file: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-pub...
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Gravitational lensing explained
02:09- An unexpected arc discovery in the RELICS survey
02:24 - How do we know it's 12.9 billion light years away?
04:02 - Repeat observations reveal clumps along the arc
04:53 - How we can see a SINGLE STAR at that distance
06:20 - The name Earendel and the Tolkein connection
07:11 - How do we know it's a single star?!
08:10 - What else could it be? Star cluster, binary star, Milky Way foreground star
09:23 - What's next: getting a spectrum with JWST
10:34 - The excitement around Population III stars
11:38 - Outro
12:06 - Brilliant
13:16 - Bloopers
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