The Guardian reports:
A star that exploded 13 billion years ago has set a record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed.
Like me you'll be wondering when the star set this record. Not, surely, 13 billion years ago when it exploded, since back then it hadn't been observed - not by us anyway. So then, only lately, when it was observed? But it had long ago exploded; it was a star no more. How could it set a record? Maybe it's the observers who set the record.