November 03, 2005

The very first stars in the universe. Astronomers from NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center have published news in the journal Nature claiming that they have seen the light of the very first stars in the Universe, using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the infrared "Great Observatory" run by NASA. Could this be the humanity's first glimpse of the universe's first stars?

Some scientists, however, are skeptical of this result. Scroll down to bottom of the CNN article to see Professor Ned Wright of UCLA express that skepticism.

posted by chimaera 19 years ago
  • Grandpa Joe! beauty FPP, btw
  • Big bang. The more I see this kind stuff, the more I think the universe is very very small and we just don't know it. I picture a kid somewhere lighting off a bottle rocket and it explodes. Inside that explosion is our universe.
  • Woah.
  • If true, I'd like to have a talk with the little kid.
  • That would be Cthulhu. It's best not to think too much about this things, to forget and try not to recall such details.
  • But did the first stars have the first planets? And did those first planets have intelligent life? And did that intelligent life have the internets? And did that internets have a monkeybashi to create a filter?? Huh?? Huh?? Let me know when the memo comes out.
  • This is the memo.
  • Well, of course, Stirfry. You can take your own GramMa's werd on that. All bow to the First MonkeyBashi of the Universe!