Newly discovered star Earendel

Stan Brown

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Mar 31, 2022, 1:10:43 PM3/31/22

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"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".

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Louis Epstein

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Mar 31, 2022, 9:14:34 PM3/31/22

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Stan Brown <the_sta...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> "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".
>

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

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May 25, 2022, 6:29:04 PM5/25/22

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On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:10:41 -0700, Stan Brown wrote:

> "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".

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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May 25, 2022, 9:46:50 PM5/25/22

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On Wed, 25 May 2022 22:29:02 -0000 (UTC), Steve Morrison wrote:
>
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:10:41 -0700, Stan Brown wrote:

...

> > 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.

Interesting possibility!

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA
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Tolkien FAQs: http://Tolkien.slimy.com (Steuard Jensen)
Tolkien letters FAQ: https://preview.tinyurl.com/pr6sa7u
FAQ of the Rings: https://BrownMath.com/general/ringfaq.htm

Encyclopedia of Arda: https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm