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Under normal circumstances, even our most powerful telescopes couldn't see a single star at such a staggering distance. However, a phenomenon called acted like a natural magnifying glass. The gravity of the foreground galaxy cluster warped and amplified the light of Earendel by thousands of times, stretching it into a long, thin crescent that astronomers nicknamed the "Sunrise Arc." The Significance of 14125

: The light Hubble captured left the star when the universe was only 7% of its current age. 14125mp4

: Because it is so ancient, studying Earendel gives scientists a rare window into the "cosmic dawn"—the era when the very first stars were forming from primordial gases. : Because it is so ancient, studying Earendel

: Earendel is estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright. It shows:

The video produced under the ID 14125 documents this record-breaking moment. It shows: