Astronomers May Have Spotted the Remnants of One of the Earliest Stars - Gizmodo

The first stars are known as Population III stars (the three star populations were named in the order they were observed, so the Population III stars are counterintuitively the earliest).

Now, an astronomical team believes they’ve found the remnants of one such star’s supernova, in 13.1-billion-year-old light from gas surrounding the distant quasar ULAS J1342+0928.

The researchers think the remnants were ejected from a pair-instability supernova, a specific type of explosive star death that leaves no superdense remnant behind, like a black hole or a neutron star.

One of the space observatory’s main objectives is to scrutinize the oldest light in the universe, to see the first stars and galaxies being born

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