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This needs to be corrected.If not a conundrum, than a contradiction of concepts regarding the speed of light (as a limit to speed in the universe) versus measuring something that appears to have happened more than twice the age of the universe in the past.
Nothing appears to us to have happened 28 billion years ago. That distance refers to what is believed to be the current distance to the star. The light hubble observed left the star 12.9 billion years ago.
From the article:
"When the light that we see from Earendel was emitted, the Universe was less than a billion years old; only 6% of its current age. At that time it was 4 billion lightyears away from the proto-Milky Way, but during the almost 13 billion years it took the light to reach us, the Universe has expanded so that it is now a staggering 28 billion lightyears away."