Team aims to use new NASA telescope to capture light from the first stars to be born in the universe

On: April 25, 2018

About 200 to 400 million years after the Big Bang created the universe, the first stars began to appear. Ordinarily stars lying at such a great distance in space and time would be out of reach even for NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, due for launch in 2020.

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