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Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Supermassive Stars in Early Universe


Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered chemical fingerprints of primordial stars weighing between 1,000 and 10,000 times the mass of the Sun in GS 3073, an early galaxy at redshift of 5.55 (one billion years after the Big Bang).

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