We Just Found...

 ...okay. We just got an image of a star that is 28 billion light years away. That also means that the image is 28 billion years old.

That's a number that's really outside what we can easily grasp. This star is, of course, a big one. They aren't sure, but it's far, far brighter than the sun. It's almost certainly a supergiant.

And the nickname is "Earendel" which at least one site blathers on about the Old English when we all know the truth...

...somebody at NASA is a Tolkein fan.

But 28 billion light years. And that's with the old space telescope.

Now I'm waiting to see what data NASA is about to release from Hubble that's apparently "one for the record books."

It's probably not aliens.