what is the farthest known star and what is its name?

Question

I am just wondering the exact name of the farthest object from earth, its scientific name and not a galaxy or cluster of stars,

Answer 1

Dear Sir:

Your question poses a problem for me to answer because you used the word "star." Objects have been detected in space out to distances of 40 Billion Light Years. those objects are most likely far off galaxies and it is impossible to see the individual stars within them. in most cases those galaxies were detected by radio telescopes not optical ones. In some cases the galaxies have been named with numbers, and you will find them cataloged.

At this moment I am 700 miles away from home and cannot look at my references as I would like to and respond with a series of identities for you.

I recommend that you do a search on the Internet using the key words:

Curious About Astronomy

If you do that, you will find a link to a site developed by Cornell University for people with a keen interest in Astronomy, and many questions like this already answered.
I think you will like looking through the material they have there.

Good Luck,
Zah

Answer 2

Your question would make more sense if you replaced "star" with "object".

Since galaxies contain billions of stars and there are billions of galaxies, the "farthest star" concept is a bit like you asking what is the farthest tree in all the forests of the world.

Even if you were to ask the farthest star in the galaxy it would be like asking someone what is the farthest tree in the forest.

Look up Qasars in the Wikipedia.com. They used to say they were the farthest objects. But lately I think they have found primitive galaxies (formed early after the big bang) at the farthest reaches of the universe.

Answer 3

The farthest stars are located in the farthest galaxies we've seen. Since those galaxies are so far away, we can't make out the individual stars -- just the smudge of light representing the galaxy.

Answer 4

Well first of all, the furthest star that we have seen is not a star anymore. Thats because we are looking into the past since light can only go so fast. Anyways, to be able to detect a star so far, we needed something with a lot of energy to show us that it was there. For instance, we probably couldn't see it with our telescopes now, but we could detect it with gamma ray bursts. So in 2006, we recieved the furthest gamma ray burst ever seen. Just a few hundred million years after the big bang, a massive star exhausted it's fuel and collapsed as a black hole. In turn, it released huge amounts of gamma ray radiation which finally came to us. I believe the burst was named GRB 050904.

Answer 5

Alpha Holysh*tthatsfaraway

Answer 6

Most stars have been given numbers and the named ones are the closest ones. ~