Astronomy:List of most distant stars

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This is a list of the most distant individually seen stars discovered.

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List of most distant individually seen stars.
Star Redshift Distance (mpc) Notes
WHL0137-LS (Earendel) 6.2±0.1[1] 8,600 The most distant known star as of 2023.
star-1 4.8[2] 7,830
star-2
Unnamed blue supergiant 2.65[3] 6,110
Godzilla 2.38[4] 5,780 The most luminous known star.
Quyllur 2.1878[5] 5,540 First red supergiant at cosmological distances.
Mothra 2.091[6] 5,400 A binary consisting of a yellow supergiant and a B-type star.
MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 1.49[7] 4,410 Thought to be most distant star prior to the discovery of Earendel.
SDSS J1229+1122 0.000127 17

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