Taking The Long View

The Very First Stars

The Very First Stars by Andy Howell
"What was the universe like when the first stars turned on? When these first stars condensed out of the clouds of the primordial universe, were they arranged as they are today in huge galaxies of billions of stars? Or did stars form first, and later collect into galaxies? Or was the situation something in between? . . . in this one picture we can see more than ten billion years of cosmic history. At once we see today's modern galaxies, and thanks to the focusing power of their gravity, we also see their origins as tiny conglomerations of the very first stars."