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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Oldest GRB

The discovery also proves massive stars capable of exploding as GRBs existed when the universe was only 630 million years old. This is not a surprise; cosmologists think the very first stars formed when the universe was between 200 and 400 million years old — that is, between redshifts 12 and 20.


Taken from Sky and Telescope (below)

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