Riyadh — Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has called on all Muslims living in the country to sight the crescent of Ramadan after sundown Friday, which is the 29th of Shaban.
Anyone sighting the Ramadan crescent must inform the nearest court and report their witness, the Supreme Court said. The sighting can also be reported to an Administrative Center.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had spotted a star, at least 50 times the mass of our sun.
It glows several million times brighter and is so deep in space that it took its light a colossal 12.9 billion years to reach Earth.
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It is the farthest, oldest single star ever seen by humankind, presently floats 28 billion light-years away.
Scientists, after some deliberation, named the cosmic artifact Earendel, Old English for “morning star.”
Our sun, nearly 93 million miles (149,669,000 kilometers) from us, is the Earth’s sole lightbulb AND a whopping 109 times the diameter. Earendel is between 50 and 500 times greater than that.
With Earendel, millions of times brighter than our sun, we’re looking at light that originated after the Big Bang. Its photons journeyed for many millennia to reach human eyes.
The most astonishing point in this discovery is that every galaxy cluster leading to Earendel oriented itself so that it made the single star’s light stand out in the Sunrise Arc.
