List of most distant stars explained

This is a list of the most distant individually seen stars discovered.

List

List of most distant individually seen stars!Star!Redshift!Distance (Mpc)!Discovery!Notes
WHL0137-LS (Earendel)[1] 8,6002022
MACS J0647.7+7015 LS14.8[2] 7,8302023
MACS J0647.7+7015 LS2
Abell 2744 LS12.65[3] 6,1102022
Godzilla2.38[4] 5,7802022The most luminous known star.
Quyllur2.1878[5] 5,5402023First red supergiant at cosmological distances.
Mothra2.091[6] 5,4002023A binary consisting of a yellow supergiant or yellow hypergiant and a Blue supergiant.
MACS J1149 Lensed Star 11.49[7] 4,4102018The most distant known star prior to the discovery of Earendel.
Warhol0.94 [8] 3,0002014Transient, extremely luminous O-type star or a Large Wolf-Rayet star[9]
AT 2022zmn0.019 [10] 842022Luminous blue variable.
AT 2022oku0.018 [11] 792022Luminous blue variable.
AT 2018kle0.012505 [12] 552018Luminous blue variable.
SDSS J1229+11220.00012717
2013Blue supergiant.

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  10. Web site: Transient Name Server . AT 2020zmn . . 30 August 2024.
  11. Web site: Transient Name Server . AT 2022oku . . 29 August 2024.
  12. Web site: Transient Name Server . AT 2018kle . . 30 August 2024.

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