A star named Icarus: U of M researchers discover farthest star ever seen

Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen. It is only visible because it is being magnified by the gravity of a massive galaxy cluster, located about 5 billion light-years from Earth.
NASA, ESA, and P. Kelly (University of Minnesota)
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