Oldest stars ever seen give clue to the end of Big Bang dark age
Cosmos Magazine - Thu 17 May 18Stars that shone just 250 million years after the universe began take astronomy closer to its Holy Grail. Richard A Lovett reports.
Scientists detect oxygen legacy of first stars
BBC News - Thu 17 May 18The very first stars to shine in the Universe left a tell-tale trace in a far-distant galaxy.
Most distant breath of oxygen dates back to the Cosmic Dawn
New Atlas - Thu 17 May 18For the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe was a very cold, dark place. Basic elements like oxygen, carbon and nitrogen weren't very common until the first ...
Researchers Close In On Birthdate of First Stars
Discover Magazine - Wed 16 May 18The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is not your standard, run-of-the-mill telescope. Instead, ALMA, which is located in the high-and-dry Atacama Desert of northern Chile, ...
Some of the universe’s first stars have actually been seen
Newscientist - Wed 16 May 18Using four of the world’s most powerful telescopes, we’ve spotted stars from just 250 million years after the big bang in a galaxy billions of light years away
Scientists see surprise oxygen signal deep in the universe, suggesting stars formed far earlier than we realised
The Independent - Wed 16 May 18'We are getting closer to directly witnessing the birth of starlight'
Astronomers find evidence for stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
Phys.org - Wed 16 May 18Not long after the Big Bang, the first generations of stars began altering the chemical make-up of primitive galaxies, slowly enriching the interstellar medium with basic elements such as oxygen, ...
Astronomers Find Evidence for Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang, Laboratory Equipment - Thu 17 May 18The first stars may have formed much earlier than scientists thought
Engadget - Mon 21 May 18After the Big Bang occurred, there was no oxygen in the early universe. Stars had to be born before oxygen could be created by fusion processes. When these stars died, the oxygen was ...
Oxygen presence in distant galaxy sheds light on early universe
Reuters - Wed 16 May 18WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After detecting a whiff of oxygen, astronomers have determined that stars in a faraway galaxy formed 250 million years after the Big Bang -- a rather short time in cosmic ...
Discovery of distant galaxy opens door to 'uncharted period of cosmic history'
Daily Mail - Wed 16 May 18Stars in a galaxy far, far away formed just 250 million years after the birth of the universe – earlier than any others known, British-led astronomers have found.
A galaxy far, far away holds oldest oxygen ever seen
Chemistry World - Wed 16 May 18Oxygen discovered 13 billion light years away hints at earliest star formation after big bang
In a distant galaxy, scientists find oldest oxygen in universe and stars from edge of cosmic dawn
L.A. Times - Wed 16 May 18In a distant galaxy more than 13 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered traces of the oldest known oxygen in the universe, as well as evidence that ancient stars “turned ...
Stars Formed Only 250 Million Years After the Big Bang, a Step Closer to Cosmic Dawn
SPACE.com - Wed 16 May 18Stars in a galaxy 13.28 billion light-years away formed just 250 million years after the Big Bang, according to new observations.
The first stars formed when the universe was less than 2% its current age
Astronomy.com - Wed 16 May 18Astronomers have detected a 13.3-billion-year-old oxygen signal, which suggests the first stars began forming just 250 million years after the Big Bang.
ALMA finds most-distant oxygen in the universe
SpaceDaily - Thu 17 May 18Charlottesville VA (SPX) May 17, 2018 Not long after the Big Bang, the first generations of stars began altering the chemical make-up of primitive galaxies, slowly enriching the interstellar ...
ALMA Finds Most-Distant Oxygen in the Universe, Newswise - Wed 16 May 18Evidence for stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
ScienceDaily - Wed 16 May 18Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to determine that star formation in the very distant galaxy ...