Newly discovered star Earendel

[Stan Brown]

"The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has widened humanity?s
perspective on the cosmos yet again, this time revealing the most
distant ? and therefore oldest ? individual star ever seen. This
star formed in the juvenile universe just 900 million years after the
Big Bang. Astronomers have nicknamed it Earendel, a tribute to
English fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as the European
mythology he drew upon for his stories of Middle Earth.[sic] ..."

Full article here:
<https://earthsky.org/space/most-distant-star-yet-seen-spied-by-
hubble/>

The discovery team must be familiar with some of the History of
Middle-Earth series; otherwise they'd have named it Earendil, with an
"i".

[Louis Epstein]

Post by Stan Brown
"The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has widened humanity?s
perspective on the cosmos yet again, this time revealing the most
distant ? and therefore oldest ? individual star ever seen. This
star formed in the juvenile universe just 900 million years after the
Big Bang. Astronomers have nicknamed it Earendel, a tribute to
English fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as the European
mythology he drew upon for his stories of Middle Earth.[sic] ..."
<https://earthsky.org/space/most-distant-star-yet-seen-spied-by-
hubble/>
The discovery team must be familiar with some of the History of
Middle-Earth series; otherwise they'd have named it Earendil, with an
"i".

Another story is at
https://www.space.com/hubble-most-distant-star-tolkien-name-earendil
(I posted it at a.f.t since it's less linked to a book of
Tolkien's than to casual writings HoME collected).

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[Steve Morrison]

Post by Stan Brown
"The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has widened humanity?s
perspective on the cosmos yet again, this time revealing the most
distant ? and therefore oldest ? individual star ever seen. This
star formed in the juvenile universe just 900 million years after the
Big Bang. Astronomers have nicknamed it Earendel, a tribute to
English fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as the European
mythology he drew upon for his stories of Middle Earth.[sic] ..."
<https://earthsky.org/space/most-distant-star-yet-seen-spied-by-
hubble/>
The discovery team must be familiar with some of the History of
Middle-Earth series; otherwise they'd have named it Earendil, with an
"i".

OTOH, they may use that spelling because of the poem "Christ":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_I

which was Tolkien's own source for the name.

[Stan Brown]

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Post by Steve Morrison

Post by Stan Brown
The discovery team must be familiar with some of the History of
Middle-Earth series; otherwise they'd have named it Earendil, with an
"i".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_I
which was Tolkien's own source for the name.

Interesting possibility!