HAVE the first stars finally revealed themselves? Astronomers in the US are
claiming they may have found clusters that contain the first generation of stars
to have congealed out of the cooling debris of the big bang. “If we’re right,
it’s an awesome discovery,” says Chris Churchill of Pennsylvania State
University in University Park.
After the blinding explosion of the big bang, the Universe was completely
dark for a billion years. Then lights began to switch on. These first stars
would have been the building blocks of today’s galaxies, but no one knows what
they looked like or how they…
