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  • Newly discovered star Earendel

    From Stan Brown@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 31 10:10:41 2022
    "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".

    --
    Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA
    https://BrownMath.com/
    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: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm

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  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Stan Brown on Fri Apr 1 01:14:33 2022
    Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@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).

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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  • From Steve Morrison@21:1/5 to Stan Brown on Wed May 25 22:29:02 2022
    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.

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  • From Stan Brown@21:1/5 to Steve Morrison on Wed May 25 18:46:48 2022
    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
    https://BrownMath.com/
    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

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