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Old May 16th 18, 12:22 PM posted to sci.astro.research
Steve Willner
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Default First stars

A recent _Nature_ article
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018Natur.555...67B
shows evidence that the first stars appeared by z=20, about 180 Myr
after the Big Bang. This is a preliminary result and still needs
confirmation, but it's quite intriguing. Unfortunately there does
not appear to be a free-access preprint of the article, but one of
the authors will be giving the CfA Colloquium this Thursday at 4 PM
EDT (UT-4). Colloquia are usually live-streamed; link at
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/colloquia
or
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAp...xmiV95A0ChueYg
The latter link shows past colloquia but won't show the live stream
(if at all) until just a minute or two before the talk starts.

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