Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Glow from first stars revealed





Astronomers have detected a faint glow from the first stars to form in the Universe, Nature journal reports.

This earliest group of stars, called Population III, probably formed from primordial gas less than 200 million years after the Big Bang.


Now that's old.

2 comments:

Mac said...

Way late indeed. It's difficult to imagine a civilization a few centuries ahead of us at the rate we're going. Try to imagine a couple billion...

Mac said...

I had just watched "Contact" and was more or less thinking of the same line!