WHL0137-LS, also known as Earendel, is a star in the constellation of Cetus. Discovered in 2022 by the Hubble Space Telescope, it is the earliest and most distant known star, at a comoving distance of 28 billion light-years. The previous farthest known star, MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, a.k.a. Icarus, at a comoving distance of 14.4 billion light-years, was discovered by Hubble in 2018.