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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 Near Spec Prism Spectroscopy

Using the James Webb space telescope near spec prism spectroscopy we report the discovery of a sub l star galaxy at z spec equals 8.1623 plus or minus 0.0 0.7 dub something or other. So this is the instrument that is used to do spectroscopy to split the light up like Newton did only in a more sophisticated way so we can see these emission lines from these distant stars and everything else. This happens in the first billion years after the big bang but this they go on to say but still poorly explored observationally yeah it's a bit hard to see things that far away that early on in the universe let's keep going.

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