US EditionWhen Did the First Stars Die? Observing a Supernova at the Dawn of the Universe
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have discovered the most distant supernova in the Universe. The explosion of a star in a barely visible galaxy occurred when the Universe was just 730 million years old, Live Science reports.
When Did the First Stars Die? Observing a Supernova at the Dawn of the Universe
New data from the James Webb have shown a supernova that occurred when the universe was less than one billion years old. A supernova from when the Universe was less than one billion years old could be the death of one of the first stars. The first supernovae in the universe are associated with Population III stars, the very first stars. They formed almost exclusively from hydrogen and helium and were far more massive than present-day stars. Thes…
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