The first stars in the universe @drdaviddarling

Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Thanks to new research we now have a pretty clear idea when the first stars in the universe began to shine.

Reference: Probing cosmic dawn: Ages and star formation histories of candidate z ≥ 9 galaxies. N Laporte, R A Meyer, R S Ellis, B E Robertson, J Chisholm, G W Roberts-Borsani Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 505, Issue 3, August 2021, Pages 3336–3346, doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1239 .
Images: Harley Katz, University of Oxford; ESA/Hubble; NASA; NR Fuller, National Science Foundation

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My website: daviddarling.info

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