And, while the star's technical designation is WHL0137-LS, they gave it a much catchier name: Earendel. Fans of the author J.R.R. Tolkien, famous for fantasy novels including "The Lord of the ...

Since Tolkien imagined his legendarium as a mythical history of England, the stars above Middle-earth were meant to be the same stars visible in real life, but he gave the constellations unique ...

"It was like Tolkien put some stars in the sky and let us make out the constellations. "In his letters, Tolkien talked about wanting to leave behind a mythology that 'left scope for other minds ...