Icarus is a blue supergiant,a scarce type of star that is larger than the Sun and far more luminous
It might sight like a tiny speck amid a bejewelled vista of the universe, but scientists say a pinprick of light in an image captured by the Hubble space telescope is the most distant individual star ever seen that is not a supernova. The team behind the find say the light was emitted from the star – dubbed Icarus but officially named MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1 – when it was more than 9bn light years from Earth. Icarus is now much further absent but will have died, or forming either a black hole or a neutron star.
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Source: guardian.co.uk