Early formation created stars that led to our own
(NEWSER) - Astronomers have caught a first-ever glimpse of gas clouds as they existed just a few minutes after the big bang, the Los Angeles Time s reports. These clouds—long gone by now, but still visible to us—contain lighter elements like hydrogen and helium, which condensed into stars during the first few hundred million years of the universe. These stars "must have looked very different from stars formed today—they would be much bigger and very short-lived," an astronomer says. More»
