Traces of the earliest stars in the universe may have been found.

Last updated on: January 14, 2016 at 6:54 pm by Dan Peterson

ESO in Paranal — The European Southern Observatory’s ingeniously named “Very Large Telescope” or VLT is located, with auxiliary instruments, at Paranal, in northern Chile.
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Peering twelve billion years into the past:

http://www.space.com/31597-universe-first-stars-gas-cloud-evidence.html

Even I wasn’t around then.

This is really quite interesting. It took the universe quite a while to become ready for the appearance of life. Among other things, the stars had to create the heavy elements first. The European Southern Observatory may have located a place where that occurred and traces of the process still remain.

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