Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remnants of the first stars to light up the Universe. Using innovative analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North Telescope in Hawai’i, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, scientists have found an unusual ratio of elements that, according to them, could only have come from the …
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Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remnants of the first stars to light up the Universe. Using innovative analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North Telescope in Hawai’i, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, scientists have found an unusual ratio of elements that, according to them, could only have come from the …
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Astronomers may have found the chemical traces of one of the first stars – born when the universe was just 100 million years old – which exploded in a “super-supernova”. These early generations starsknown as Population III stars, ended their lives in supernova explosions that seeded the universe with chemical elements that the stars had …
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