The telescope ‘Hubble‘ discovered Earendel, the farthest star ever observed. The scientific community released this Wednesday historic hito that Nasa warned hours that it would be “exciting” and “for the record books“. Wow, it was.
The star is about 12.9 billion from Light years from Land. As the entire announcement of the discovery was planned, the name of the star could not be less.
The name of the star means “morning Star” O “rising star” on old Englishexplained the authors of the discovery in the study published this Wednesday in the journal ‘Nature’.
Wink to Tolkien
But the history of the nickname of the star does not end here: the name is also a tribute to the poem ‘The journey of Eärendel, the evening star‘, written in 1914 by John R. R. Tolkienauthor of ‘The Lord of the rings‘, as explained by the CSIC in a press release.
The choice is not trivial, the work narrates the travel through the universe of the sailor Eärendelwho would later be incorporated by the author into the stories of ‘El Silmarillion‘ and would become the character of Eärendil.
The poem, published posthumously by the author’s son, consists of a total of 48 lines and is essential for the development of the ‘Legendarium‘ by Tolkien. Therefore, the poem is the origin, the birth, the beginning of something great, as was the mythology of Middle-earth.
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The discovery of the star that that: go back to the origins. Specifically, “it allows us to go back much further in the origin of the universe”, explained the CSIC astrologers. The farthest star is “a great leap back in time when compared to the previous record of the star Icarus,” experts argue.
‘The journey of Eärendel, the evening star’, was the beginning of a great story that marked literature forever. Now Earendel has done it: mark a before and after in the astronomy.