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Two stars that were thought to be among the first produced in the universe were in fact formed from the explosion of an older star, according to astrophysicists in Japan. Ken'ichi Nomoto and colleagues from the University of Tokyo came to this conclusion by comparing the chemical composition of the...

Title: The earliest stars and their relics in the Milky Way Authors: L. Gao, Tom Theuns, C. S. Frenk, A. Jenkins, J. Navarro, V. Springel, S. D. M. White We have implemented a simple model to identify the likely sites of the first stars and galaxies in the high-resolution simulations of the formation o...

From BBC: Astronomers have detected a faint glow from the first stars to form in the Universe, Nature journal reports. This earliest group of stars, called Population III, probably formed from primordial gas less than 200 million years after the Big Bang. These objects cannot be seen by an...

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Two stars that were thought to be among the first produced in the universe were in fact formed from the explosion of an older star, according to astrophysicists in Japan. Ken'ichi Nomoto and colleagues from the University of Tokyo came to this conclusion by comparing the chemical composition of the...
First stars The earliest stars (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	0	1037	Sep 10 11:11 2009 by Blobrana
Title: The earliest stars and their relics in the Milky Way Authors: L. Gao, Tom Theuns, C. S. Frenk, A. Jenkins, J. Navarro, V. Springel, S. D. M. White We have implemented a simple model to identify the likely sites of the first stars and galaxies in the high-resolution simulations of the formation o...
Universe First stars Glow From The First Stars In The Universe ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	16	20853	Jun 13 16:44 2012 by Blobrana
From BBC: Astronomers have detected a faint glow from the first stars to form in the Universe, Nature journal reports. This earliest group of stars, called Population III, probably formed from primordial gas less than 200 million years after the Big Bang. These objects cannot be seen by an...