List of most distant stars

|+List of most distant individually seen stars

!Star

!Redshift

!Distance (Mpc)

!Discovery

!Notes

|{{Val|6.2|0.1}}{{Cite journal |last1=Welch |first1=Brian |last2=Coe |first2=Dan |last3=Diego |first3=Jose M. |last4=Zitrin |first4=Adi |last5=Zackrisson |first5=Erik |last6=Dimauro |first6=Paola |last7=Jiménez-Teja |first7=Yolanda |last8=Kelly |first8=Patrick |last9=Mahler |first9=Guillaume |last10=Oguri |first10=Masamune |last11=Timmes |first11=F. X. |last12=Windhorst |first12=Rogier |last13=Florian |first13=Michael |last14=de Mink |first14=S. E. |last15=Avila |first15=Roberto J. |date=March 2023 |title=A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04449-y |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=603 |issue=7903 |pages=815–818 |doi=10.1038/s41586-022-04449-y |pmid=35354998 |arxiv=2209.14866 |s2cid=247842625 |issn=1476-4687}}

|8,600

|2022

|The most distant known star {{as of|2023|lc=y|post=.}}

| rowspan="2" |4.8{{Cite journal |last1=Meena |first1=Ashish Kumar |last2=Zitrin |first2=Adi |last3=Jiménez-Teja |first3=Yolanda |last4=Zackrisson |first4=Erik |last5=Chen |first5=Wenlei |last6=Coe |first6=Dan |last7=Diego |first7=Jose M. |last8=Dimauro |first8=Paola |last9=Furtak |first9=Lukas J. |last10=Kelly |first10=Patrick L. |last11=Oguri |first11=Masamune |last12=Welch |first12=Brian |last13=Abdurro’uf |last14=Andrade-Santos |first14=Felipe |last15=Adamo |first15=Angela |date=February 2023 |title=Two Lensed Star Candidates at z ≃ 4.8 behind the Galaxy Cluster MACS J0647.7+7015 |journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters |language=en |volume=944 |issue=1 |pages=L6 |doi=10.3847/2041-8213/acb645 |issn=2041-8205 |doi-access=free |arxiv=2211.13334 |bibcode=2023ApJ...944L...6M |hdl=10810/61038 |hdl-access=free }}

| rowspan="2" |7,830

| rowspan="2" |2023

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|2.65{{Cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Wenlei |last2=Kelly |first2=Patrick L. |last3=Treu |first3=Tommaso |last4=Wang |first4=Xin |last5=Roberts-Borsani |first5=Guido |last6=Keen |first6=Allison |last7=Windhorst |first7=Rogier A. |last8=Zhou |first8=Rui |last9=Bradac |first9=Marusa |last10=Brammer |first10=Gabriel |last11=Strait |first11=Victoria |last12=Broadhurst |first12=Tom J. |last13=Diego |first13=Jose M. |last14=Frye |first14=Brenda L. |last15=Meena |first15=Ashish K. |date=1 December 2022 |title=Early Results from GLASS-JWST. VIII. An Extremely Magnified Blue Supergiant Star at Redshift 2.65 in the A2744 Cluster Field |journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters |volume=940 |issue=2 |pages=L54 |doi=10.3847/2041-8213/ac9585 |issn=2041-8205 |doi-access=free |arxiv=2207.11658 |bibcode=2022ApJ...940L..54C |hdl=10810/59535 |hdl-access=free }}

|6,110

|2022

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|2.38{{Cite journal |last1=Diego |first1=J. M. |last2=Pascale |first2=M. |last3=Kavanagh |first3=B. J. |last4=Kelly |first4=P. |last5=Dai |first5=L. |last6=Frye |first6=B. |last7=Broadhurst |first7=T. |date=1 September 2022 |title=Godzilla, a monster lurks in the Sunburst galaxy |url=https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/09/aa43605-22/aa43605-22.html |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |language=en |volume=665 |pages=A134 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202243605 |s2cid=247476158 |issn=0004-6361|doi-access=free |arxiv=2203.08158 |bibcode=2022A&A...665A.134D }}

|5,780

|2022

|The most luminous known star.

|2.1878{{Cite journal |last1=Diego |first1=J. M. |last2=Meena |first2=A. K. |last3=Adams |first3=N. J. |last4=Broadhurst |first4=T. |last5=Dai |first5=L. |last6=Coe |first6=D. |last7=Frye |first7=B. |last8=Kelly |first8=P. |last9=Koekemoer |first9=A. M. |last10=Pascale |first10=M. |last11=Willner |first11=S. P. |last12=Zackrisson |first12=E. |last13=Zitrin |first13=A. |last14=Windhorst |first14=R. A. |last15=Cohen |first15=S. H. |date=1 April 2023 |title=JWST's PEARLS: A new lens model for ACT-CL J0102−4915, "El Gordo," and the first red supergiant star at cosmological distances discovered by JWST |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023A&A...672A...3D |journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics |volume=672 |pages=A3 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202245238 |arxiv=2210.06514 |bibcode=2023A&A...672A...3D |s2cid=252873244 |issn=0004-6361}}

|5,540

|2023

|First red supergiant at cosmological distances.

|2.091{{Cite journal |last1=Diego |first1=Jose M. |last2=Sun |first2=Bangzheng |last3=Yan |first3=Haojing |last4=Furtak |first4=Lukas J. |last5=Zackrisson |first5=Erik |last6=Dai |first6=Liang |last7=Kelly |first7=Patrick |last8=Nonino |first8=Mario |last9=Adams |first9=Nathan |last10=Meena |first10=Ashish K. |last11=Willner |first11=Steven P. |last12=Zitrin |first12=Adi |last13=Cohen |first13=Seth H. |last14=D’Silva |first14=Jordan C. J. |last15=Jansen |first15=Rolf A. |date=1 November 2023 |title=JWST's PEARLS: Mothra, a new kaiju star at z = 2.091 extremely magnified by MACS0416, and implications for dark matter models |url=https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2023/11/aa47556-23/aa47556-23.html |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |language=en |volume=679 |pages=A31 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202347556 |s2cid=259991552 |issn=0004-6361|doi-access=free |arxiv=2307.10363 |bibcode=2023A&A...679A..31D }}

|5,400

|2023

|A binary consisting of a yellow supergiant or yellow hypergiant and a Blue supergiant.

|1.49{{Cite journal |last1=Kelly |first1=Patrick L. |last2=Diego |first2=Jose M. |last3=Rodney |first3=Steven |last4=Kaiser |first4=Nick |last5=Broadhurst |first5=Tom |last6=Zitrin |first6=Adi |last7=Treu |first7=Tommaso |last8=Pérez-González |first8=Pablo G. |last9=Morishita |first9=Takahiro |last10=Jauzac |first10=Mathilde |last11=Selsing |first11=Jonatan |last12=Oguri |first12=Masamune |last13=Pueyo |first13=Laurent |last14=Ross |first14=Timothy W. |last15=Filippenko |first15=Alexei V. |date=April 2018 |title=Extreme magnification of an individual star at redshift 1.5 by a galaxy-cluster lens |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0430-3 |journal=Nature Astronomy |language=en |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=334–342 |doi=10.1038/s41550-018-0430-3 |s2cid=256703331 |issn=2397-3366|arxiv=1706.10279 |bibcode=2018NatAs...2..334K }}

|4,410

|2018

|The most distant known star prior to the discovery of Earendel.

|0.94 {{Cite journal|last=Chen|first=Wenlei|date=2019|title=Searching for Highly Magnified Stars at Cosmological Distances: Discovery of a Redshift 0.94 Blue Supergiant in Archival Images of the Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403|journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=881 |issue=1 |page=8 |doi=10.3847/1538-4357/ab297d |doi-access=free |arxiv=1902.05510|bibcode=2019ApJ...881....8C }}

|3,000

|2014

|Transient, extremely luminous O-type star or a Large Wolf-Rayet star{{cite journal | doi=10.3847/1538-4357/ab297d | doi-access=free | title=Searching for Highly Magnified Stars at Cosmological Distances: Discovery of a Redshift 0.94 Blue Supergiant in Archival Images of the Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 | date=2019 | last1=Chen | first1=Wenlei | last2=Kelly | first2=Patrick L. | last3=Diego | first3=Jose M. | last4=Oguri | first4=Masamune | last5=Williams | first5=Liliya L. R. | last6=Zitrin | first6=Adi | last7=Treu | first7=Tommaso L. | last8=Smith | first8=Nathan | last9=Broadhurst | first9=Thomas J. | last10=Kaiser | first10=Nick | last11=Foley | first11=Ryan J. | last12=Filippenko | first12=Alexei V. | last13=Salo | first13=Laura | last14=Hjorth | first14=Jens | last15=Selsing | first15=Jonatan | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=881 | page=8 | bibcode=2019ApJ...881....8C | arxiv=1902.05510 }}

| 0.019 {{cite web | website=Transient Name Server | title=AT 2020zmn | url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020zmn | publisher = IAU | access-date=30 August 2024}}

| 84

| 2022

| Luminous blue variable.

| 0.018 {{cite web | website=Transient Name Server | title=AT 2022oku | url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2022oku | publisher = IAU | access-date=29 August 2024}}

| 79

| 2022

| Luminous blue variable.

| 0.012505 {{cite web | website=Transient Name Server | title=AT 2018kle | url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018kle | publisher = IAU | access-date=30 August 2024}}

| 55

| 2018

| Luminous blue variable.

|0.000127

|17
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|2013

| Blue supergiant.