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Astronomers May Have Just Found Evidence of The Very First Stars in Our Universe
MICHELLE STARR
19 OCTOBER 2021
Back when the Universe was young – around 13.7 billion years ago – the first stars formed in the soupy darkness, setting the cosmos alight.
We've yet to find any of these very first stars, known as Population III stars – but a star found in a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way may be the next best thing.
AS0039, located in the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy 290,000 light-years away, has a chemical composition suggesting it incorporates elements from a Pop III star that went hypernova.
According to an analysis led by astronomer Ása Skúladóttir of the University of Florence in Italy, it's not only the lowest metallicity star ever discovered outside of the Milky Way galaxy, it also has the lowest carbon abundance ever seen in any star.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-may-have-just-found-evidence-of-the-first-stars-in-the-universe
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