Evolutionary scientists may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars

 

Evolutionists think that the very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but astronomers may have found some for the very first time. Image courtesy of NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani

Joel Kontinen

We may have finally seen the first generation of stars. Astronomers have been looking for these primordial behemoths, called Population III stars, for decades. Now they have found what may be the most promising candidate yet.

Population III stars are expected to be very different from modern, or Population I, stars, says the evolutionists. They would have formed from pristine hydrogen and helium gas, before heavier elements were distributed throughout the universe by supernovae and powerful stellar winds. They are also expected to be bigger and hotter than modern stars.

That is exactly what Eli Visbal at the University of Toledo in Ohio and his colleagues found when they did a detailed analysis of previous James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of a distant galaxy called LAP1-B. It is at a redshift – a number that astronomers use to measure distance – of 6.6, which means we see LAP1-B as it was just about 800 million years after the big bang. That is so far away the only reason we could spot it at all is because its light was magnified by a nearer galaxy cluster in a process called gravitational lensing.

“There should be tons and tons of these all over the observable universe, but we can only look sort of under the lamppost of this cluster that’s magnifying the light,” says Visbal. When he and his team calculated how many Population III star clusters we should find at this redshift, they found that it should be about one – which is what they saw..

Another point in LAP1-B’s favour is it only seems to have enough stars to make up a few thousand times the mass of the sun. Other candidates for Population III galaxies tend to have much higher stellar masses, inconsistent with simulations of how clusters of Population III stars form. “This is the best candidate we have so far,” says Visbal.

Most Population III stars are expected to have lived and died between about 100 and 400 million years after the big bang, after which there would have been enough heavy elements in the cosmos to form stars that are more similar to the ones we see today. “This object ticks many of the boxes, but I am a bit sceptical because it’s late in the game for these stars to be around, and there may be alternatives that might do the job as well,” says Ralf Klessen at Heidelberg University in Germany. “It would be super interesting to see a Population III star cluster, but statistically this would certainly be an outlier.”

 “[For these to be Population III stars], it must be an extremely lucky combination of different factors, each of them extremely rare on its own, and much more rare when they have to happen together.” It will take deeper observations and more detailed simulations to find out for sure if LAP1-B marks the first time we have seen these strange stars.

This is important because understanding Population III stars is crucial to figuring out how and when the first heavy elements formed. “They can tell us how the chemistry of the universe evolved from just hydrogen and helium to all the cool chemistry and life and everything that we have in the universe today,” says Visbal. Population III stars were the first building blocks of the complexity that surrounds us now.

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Leah Crane 2025 We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars | New Scientist 3 November 

 

Rogue planet gains 6 billion tonnes per second in record growth spurt

Artist’s impression of Cha 1107-7626, a rogue planet about 620 light years away. Image courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser

Joel Kontinen

A free-floating planet has been seen devouring astonishing amounts of matter, hinting that stars and planets are more alike than we thought.

A ravenous rogue planet has been caught eating 6 billion tonnes of gas and dust per second. This behaviour blurs the line between planets and stars, suggesting both can form in similar ways.

Rogue planets, free-floating balls of gas unattached to any parent star, appear to be extremely common, and may even exceed the number of stars we see in the galaxy. But astronomers still don’t understand whether they form like planets in orbit around a star and are then banished to wander the galaxy alone, or if they can form like stars by themselves.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Rogue planet gains 6 billion tonnes per second in record growth spurt | New Scientist 2 October 

When were the first stars formed?

 

Image courtesy of NSF's NOIRLab

Joel Kontinen

The first generation of stars changed the course of cosmic history. Now, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a real chance of spotting them.

When were  the first stars created? According to the true history the universe, they were created when the sun, the Earth and everything was formed.

But the Big Bang story has a different view, it states that “between 200 and 400 million years after the big bang, the energy pouring from them ripped apart the atoms of gas that had been cooling the universe, reheating them in a process called re-ionisation Then, as they burned and died, they created a cocktail of chemical elements. they say that it took that primed the universe to generate galaxes, planets and, ultimately, life itself”.

Astronomers have speculated that .the first stars were “huge and ferociously bright, they are thought to have been up to 300 ties as massive as our sun and 10 times hotter”.

This seems to be a miracle and it might also be a false alarm.  

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Stuart Clark, 2024, First stars: The search for the stars that changed the history of the universe | New Scientist. 29 July

 

Some of the oldest stars in the universe found hiding near the Milky Way's edge — and they may not be alone

 

Image courtesy of European Southern Observatory. 

Joel Kontinen 

According to some evolutionists, ” the ancient celestial objects may have been among the first to form after the Big Bang and were likely according to evolutionists, stolen by our galaxy during gravitational tugs-of-war billions of years ago.”

“In the study, published May 14 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers reanalyzed three previously observed stars each located around 30,000 light-years from Earth! in the Milky Way's halo — a massive cloud of stars that orbit beyond our galaxy's main galactic disk.”

 Some scientists say that “The basic chemical composition of these stars suggests they are all between 12 and 13 billion years old, making them almost as old as the universe itself, which formed around 13.8 billion years old.

This dating is off by several hundred years:  Only God could make the stars.

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 Harry Baker 2024. Some of the oldest stars in the universe found hiding near the Milky Way's edge — and they may not be alone | Live Science 16 May.

When were the first stars born?

 

 Image courtesy of: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz)/Ben Johnson (CfA)/Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge)/Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona)/Daniel Eisenstein (CfA)).

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, the first generation of stars to exist in the universe has “come to light, thanks to observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The proof is located in one of the most distant galaxies known.”

The galaxy, called GN-z11, “was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015 and, prior to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, it was considered the most faraway galaxy known. “With a redshift of 10.6, it makes more sense to talk about how long ago it existed, rather than how far away it is.”

According to Genesis 1, they were born as the rest of creation was formed.

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Keith Cooper. 2024, The James Webb Space Telescope may have found some of the very 1st stars | Space  5 March.