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Space
Space
Science
Keith Cooper

This may be the daughter of one of our universe's 1st stars. Scientists call it an 'ancient immigrant'

A photo of the LMC, it looks like a bundle of tiny stars against the background of space. .

A pristine star found to be devoid of almost any elements heavier than hydrogen and helium might be the immediate descendent of one of the first stars in the universe.

If stars were like myths, then the first generation of stars to have existed in the cosmos would be like the gods of ancient Greece — massive, mysterious and profoundly influential on what came after them.

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