Guts of the universe's 1st stars found in distant gas clouds

This artist’s impression shows a distant gas cloud that contains different chemical elements, illustrated here with schematic representations of various atoms.

Astronomers have found the chemical remains left behind by the universe's first stars after they died in massive cosmic explosions called supernovas. 

The stellar remains were discovered for the first time in distant gas clouds by astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) based in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.