Scientists Calculate First Generation of Stars Made Stuff of Life

Credit: CHRISTINE LAFON, VOLKER SPRINGEL AND LARS HERNQUIST
STARDUST Giant primordial stars 200 times the mass of Earth's Sun likely generated the carbon, oxygen, iron and other heavy elements that are the building blocks of life, seeding the Universe within the first 275 million years after the Big Bang in massive explosions. Supercomputer simulations by...

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