Saturday, 27 April 2024

An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe.

 


Image courtecy of: Zdeněk Bardon/ESO

Joel Kontinen

“Scientists have identified one of the oldest known stars outside the Milky Way.” They say that it was revealing the  conditions from a time before the sun even existed, that is  if they discount the story told in Genesis,  in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

According To evolution, the “first stars born after the Big Bang lived and died billions of years ago, so there are none left to tell the story of the early universe. But traces of these stellar ancestors were preserved in the second generation of stars that formed and still survive today.”

“The earliest stars blazed to life billions of yearsago, soon after the Big Bang. They were behemoths made from the only elements that existed in abundance at the time: about three-fourths hydrogen and one-fourth helium”. This is what evolution believing scientist say.

Source:

Jonathan Gilber, 2024 Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours | Live Science 25 April.