
Ep 175: Science News 1: Population III - The First Generation of Stars in the Universe Observed?
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The First Stars in the Cosmos
The first stars to form formed from nothing but hydrogen and helium. No telescope hitherto has ever captured light from a population three star that we know of. This implies the existence of a third population population three stars stars without metals at allStars made solely of the big bang stuff purely of 75% hydrogen and 25% helium approximately why do these population three stars typically not feature in our taxonomy of stars?
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