Ancient Gas Cloud Reveals that the First Stars Formed Rapidly (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Ancient Gas Cloud Reveals that the First Stars Formed Rapidly

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An ancient gas cloud discovered by a team led including recent Carnegie-Princeton fellow Eduardo Bañados and Carnegie's Michael Rauch and Tom Cooper formed just 850 million years after the Big Bang. Its chemical composition reveals that the first generation of stars formed quickly and rapidly and enriched the universe with the elements they synthesized.

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Illustration is courtesy of the Max Planck Society

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