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Ep 175: Science News 1: Population III - The First Generation of Stars in the Universe Observed?

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The James Webb Space Telescope Can See Dim and Distant Things

Some scientists have actually observed a population three star with the James Webb space telescope recently. The light from those stars is out there ripe for collection but our instruments are so far proved too feeble to collect that light. Low metallicity can actually do something to the brightness of a star in particular what metals do inside of their stars is can act as a kind of reaction catalyst which changes the rate at which fuel is consumed among other things. This could be a second generation star we just do not know without the spectra when we have it we'll know, right now we don't know and isn't it easy just to say that we don't knows?

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