Starting with Earendel – the deepest observed star/source for which the light that took >12 billion years to reach it has reached the JWST – the readers have let out a collective gasp. 9 billion years to traverce so far to communicate with us. ”This celestial object is also referred to as the ‘rising light’ or ‘morning star’ and named Earendel, meaning a shimmer from a distant age of the universe.

When I began I believed this is a series, where this video presents the beginning of JWSTs incredible discovery – Earendel, and about the technology that made this game changing space telescope possible. We discuss why the observation of Earendel is such a significant event in the field of extragalactic astronomy, or astrophysics in the broadest sense, how it reveals new opportunities for studying the formation of the early Universe, individual stars as well as galaxies and the processes at the basis of galaxy formation.

Earendel can now represent a new source that can help the scientists gain more additional knowledge about dark matter, the backlog pace and the earliest times of the universe. Join us in this staged visual journey of this profound act in the journey towards knowledge as we also demonstrate how JWST retrieves the past for our future.