Space scientists say they have identified the most distant star ever recorded. Astronomers made the discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope, operated by the American space agency NASA. Researchers estimated the star was 50 to 100 times the mass of our sun, and millions of times brighter. It takes billions of years for light from distant stars to reach Earth. The team said the star’s light is believed to have traveled for 12.9 billion years before reaching our planet. This means the star would have existed when the universe was about seven percent of its current age. A member of the research team, Brian Welch, named the extremely hot and bright star Earendel. That is an Old English name that means morning star or rising light. “We’re seeing the star as it was about 12.8 billion years ago, which puts it about 900 million years after the Big Bang,” Welch said. He is a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University in the state of Maryland. He was the lead writer of a study describing the finding in the publication Nature. The Big Bang is the explosion that many scientists believe created the universe.