Discovery of First Stars' Remnants in Distant Gas Clouds

Astronomers have discovered the chemical remains of the universe's first stars in distant gas clouds using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. The find could help scientists better understand the conditions of the universe shortly after the Big Bang, when the universe was just around 300,000 years old and the first stars were being born. The first generation of stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago was very different from the stellar bodies we see in the universe today. The team's research was published in The Astrophysical Journal.