A flash from the early Universe
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Presenter: Nial Tanvir
Published: November 2009
Age: 14-19 and upwards
Views: 1960 views
Tags: star
Type: Lectures
Source/institution: Nature Video
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Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has reached Earth, setting a new record for the most distant astronomical object yet observed. The characteristics of the explosion show that massive stars were already forming only 630 million years after the Big Bang.
