Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star, nicknamed Earendel (IMAGE)

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Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star, nicknamed Earendel

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Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star, nicknamed Earendel, to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous. Download the full-resolution, uncompressed version from the Space Telescope Science Institute: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/132/01H6C1CE9K8REGN2EW5ACV9THX

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Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Coe (STScI/AURA for ESA; Johns Hopkins University), B. Welch (NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center; University of Maryland, College Park). Image processing: Z. Levay.

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