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Scientists detected a radio signal from stars formed 180 million years after the Big Bang, marking the end of cosmic dark ages, using a Western Australia antenna.
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Astronomers May Have Found the First Generation of Stars After the Big Bang
Thousands of stars. Credit: ESA Astronomers may have taken the closest step yet toward identifying the first stars born after the Big Bang. A new study led by Ari Visbal of the University of Toledo points to a distant galaxy, LAP1-B, as a strong candidate for hosting the universe’s earliest stellar generation, known as Population III stars. These stars have never been observed directly. Scientists believe they were made only of hydrogen and heli…
The very first generation of stars, called stars of population III, should for the most part be too far away to be seen directly – but astronomers may have discovered them for the very first time. Artist's view of the stars of Population III as they would have appeared 100 million years after the big bang We have [...]
Astronomers may have identified the first generation of stars formed after the Big Bang, the long-theorized stars of Population III, and composed entirely of hydrogen, helium, and traces of lithium. The discovery, led by Ari Visbal of the University of Toledo, comes from a detailed analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of a distant galaxy known as LAP1-B, according to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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