Astronomers get glimpse of star 9 billion light-years away
![MACS J1149](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/071117_LG_distant-star_main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
FAR OUT The gravity of the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149 bent the light from a bright blue star (one of the faint points of light just above and to the left of the super bright central star in this image), letting it reach us from 9 billion light-years away.
NASA, ESA, S. Rodney (JHU) and the FrontierSN team; T. Treu (UCLA), P. Kelly (UC Berkeley) and the GLASS team; J. Lotz (STScI) and the Frontier Fields team; M. Postman (STScI) and the CLASH team; Z. Levay (STScI)