Astronomers are Starting to Find the Wreckage Left Over from the First Stars in the Universe - by spacewriter
She and a colleague used data from the VLT to search for gas clouds with the chemical elements left over from the deaths of the first stars. Light from distant quasars passing through those clouds provided a way to look for those elements.
An artist’s illustration of the first stars to appear in the universe. Credit: N.R. Fuller, National Science Foundation
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