He's 12.9 billion light-years away, is made exclusively of hydrogen and helium, and (relativity being what it is) exploded 12.9 billion years
ago.
WHL0137-LS, AKA Earendel
"[The newly-discovered star] has the wonderful name of Earendel, and that's actually from Tolkien." -
Michelle Thaller, NASA astronomer
For bonus points, that second link shows Thaller's Tengwar tattoo (described by the clueless reporter as "writing in the elvish language that Tolkien created for works like
The Silmarillion") It's not obviously the Ring Inscription, so anyone care to hazard a transliteration/translation?
hS