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#Space and Time
Has JWST found evidence for the First Stars to ever form?
One of JWST’s main goals has always been to find evidence of the first stars to form in the Universe.
And this month there’s a paper been published by Maiolino and collaborators claiming to have found just that, around a galaxy known as GN-z11 (the previous record holder of most distant galaxy known). But claims of evidence of the first stars in the universe, aka population III stars, are not be made lightly.
So in this video we’re going to chat about (1) what are population III stars? (2) why are they so important in the history of the universe? (3) the evidence that Maiolino et al. claim to have in GN-z11, and (4) what’s next to confirm/refute this?
Dr Becky Smethurst
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