Icarus: Not flying to close to the sun, but being one.

Hey guys, it's Adventure Van here with a blog about the farthest star that mankind has ever detected. This star, nicknamed Icarus, is a good 9.3 billion light-years away, and it's very, very, very visible. Normally, at this distance, the only thing we'd see at this distance is exploding stars or entire galaxies. And the only reason we could see it is because of the fact that a cluster of galaxies perfectly aligned with the Hubble space telescope, greatly magnifying our view onto it. Because of how space works, Icarus very likely no longer exists, as this is how it would look 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Meaning this may be one the very few glimpses of it that mankind will ever see.

Adventure Van, soaring off.