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Have Astronomers Seen the Universe's First Stars?

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The James Webb Space Telescope is giving us our first glimpse of stars in the early universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:11.0

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0:20.1

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0:23.9

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0:28.4

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0:37.2

Hi, and welcome to Cosmos Quickly.

0:39.8

This is Lee Billings.

0:40.8

And this is Corinne Leone.

0:44.9

Corinne, thanks so much for being here.

0:47.5

A quick question for you.

0:49.1

What's super duper bright and hundreds or even thousands of times heavier than our entire solar system,

0:54.8

yet it's so hard to find that it has yet to be directly seen.

1:00.0

Hmm.

1:00.7

It's not a good riddle, I admit.

1:02.4

The answer, though, is a population three star.

1:05.5

That's astronomer lingo for the very first stars in the universe,

1:08.9

which formed from dense clouds of pristine hydrogen

1:11.4

and helium that filled the cosmos in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

1:16.1

Those conditions should have allowed population three stars to bulk up to proportions impossible

1:20.6

for more chemically enriched modern-day stars to achieve.

1:24.2

Right. Okay. And these massive stars were also foundational for everything else we see

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