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Even if We Can't See the First Stars, We Could Detect Their Impact on the First Galaxies


g time, our understanding of the Universe's first galaxies leaned heavily on theory. The light from that age only reached us after travelling for billions of years, and on the way, it was obscured and stretched into the infrared.

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