[Urdu/Hindi] The Farthest Star in the Universe
Which is the farthest star in the universe? Sometimes astronomers get lucky. Recently astronomers have detected a star names Earendel, whose light started its journey 12.9 billion years ago!! This is on top of recent discoveries about the farthest galaxies ever discovered, only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Please join astrophysicist Salman Hameed in exploring how astronomers detected this star and whether it will be a science target for James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in this Urdu/Hindi science documentary.
References:
Welch et al, 2022, A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04449-y
Harikane et al, 2022, A Search for H-Dropout Lyman Break Galaxies at z ∼ 12 − 16
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.09141.pdf
Other Gup Shup Videos mentioned in the episode:
Fascinating Gravitational Lenses: https://youtu.be/S6xQZ5PaXhE
The Amazing James Webb Space Telescope: https://youtu.be/YN9dpb7a17M
What is the Evidence for Big Bang? https://youtu.be/DNj1MQnDBIA
For more information about Kainaat Videos:
https://www.kainaatstudios.com/
Salman Hameed has a PhD in astronomy and is Charles Taylor Chair of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College and a member of the Five College Astronomy Department (FCAD) in Massachusetts, USA.
He is also the CEO of the non-profit Kainaat Studios
Credits:
Host/writer: Salman Hameed
Editor: Shehryar Shaikh
"Kainaat" theme music: Umer Piracha
Subtitles: DigiCircle
Images: NASA/STScI, Chandra Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, ESO, Wikipedia
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