![]() ![]() While this conclusion may seem reasonable, it is an unproven assumption. What about the great distances of stars and galaxies? If they are billions of light-years away, then shouldn’t their light take billions of years to get here? Astronomers hope to analyze the star’s spectra (information about its temperature, chemical composition, and luminosity) with the James Webb Space Telescope.īut if the star has significant amounts of other chemical elements, this will contradict evolutionary expectations, because the star is also observed alongside “young but mature” galaxies in deep space. Welch stated, "Earendel existed so long ago that it may not have had all the same raw materials as the stars around us today." 2 Based on evolutionary reasoning, Earendel should have almost no chemical elements other than hydrogen and helium. In other words, this might be a legendary Population III star. According to the Big Bang theory, this was when early stars were composed of massive amounts of hydrogen and helium, and trace amounts of lithium. Earendel appears to be even older than a 2018 discovery (also set by Hubble) of an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus.Įvolutionists maintain Earendel emitted its light allegedly within the universe's first billion years (7% of its current age), and its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach earth. 1Īstronomer Brian Welch of Johns Hopkins University nicknamed the star Earendel, which is at least 50 times the mass of our sun and millions of times brighter. Earendel is unique because Hubble was able to observe the star independently because of its alignment between earth and a galaxy that provides natural magnification a thousandfold or more. ![]()
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