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Title

First stars

Description

An artist's concept of the first stars forming after the Big Bang. The first stars should have been supermassive and metal poor stars that would end with a collapsar and a GRB, but there is currently no evidence of these earliest GRBs.

Subject

  • Star

Credits

NASA/WMAP Science Team

Type

Artwork

Associated Lesson

Gamma Ray Science

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under Grant Nos. NNX09AD33G and NNX10AE80G issued through the SMD ROSES 2009 Program.

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