How far is the farthest star we've ever seen?
More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus was spotted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope through a quirk of nature that amplified the star's feeble glow. The star, harbored in a very distant spiral galaxy, is so far away that its light has taken 9 billion years to reach Earth. It appears to us as it did when the universe was about 30 percent of its current age.
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