...and last Thursday we finally got to see it.   The star,  romantically titled GRB 090423, is the most distant object ever seen -- so distant , that it's taken light all those billions of years to reach us, travelling at -- well, at the speed of light.

Here's a link to a New Scientist article about it: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17035-most-distant-object-in-the-universe-spotted.html