1. A group of astronomers poring over data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has glimpsed light from ionized helium in a distant galaxy, which could indicate the presence of the universe’s very first generation of stars. “We exist, therefore we know there must have been a first generation of stars,” said Rebecca Bowler, an astronomer at the Uni…
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