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The recent discovery of strongly lensed stars such as Icarus, Warhol, Godzilla, and more recently Earendel has pushed the limits of the maximum distance at which stars can be studied individually. Currently, Earendel holds the record for the most distant star at an estimated redshift of 6.2 and promises a wealth of even more distant stars to come with the newly launched JWST telescope. Studying individual stars at redshifts larger than six is no longer science fiction but belongs to the realm of what is possible to achieve with current technology. In this talk, I will review the recent discoveries of strongly lensed stars, and the unique opportunities offered by this new type of observations to study not only the formation and evolution of the first stars but also to constrain models of dark matter.
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