Question

Name the farthest star that was recently seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope?
A) Alpha Orionis
B) Proxima Centauri
C) Icarus
D) Procyon

Answer 1

Icarus is the correct answer

Answer 2

The discovery of Icarus through gravitational lensing has initiated a new way for astronomers to study individual stars in distant galaxies. These observations provide a rare, detailed look at how stars evolve, especially the most luminous stars.

“This is the first time we’re seeing a magnified, individual star,” explained former University of California at Berkeley postdoc and study leader Patrick Kelly now of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. “You can see individual galaxies out there, but this star is at least 100 times farther away than the next individual star we can study, except for supernova explosions.”