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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 Redshift of 8.1 Is a Big Redshift and It's a Long Way Off

The galaxy is 13.5 billion light years away because the space can expand at faster than the speed of light there are complications here let's not worry about that right now skipping a little of the the detail here. The reason why they're seeing these lines in the galaxy's spectra is because well the galaxy's Spectra is what the star's spectra would be and so they then go on to say these that could be population three like starsPopulation three like stars may coexist with more metal in rich stars if it happens soon after the big bang. So have they seen population three stars is the hype warranted from people who are talking about this is the first detection of population three stars?

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