Primordial Stars

The Universe is ancient, far older than our own Solar System. What were the first stars that formed like? How different to the Sun could they have been? Today we explore 3 fascinating astrophysical stars in the early Universe.

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Thank-you to Kevin Clark, Tom Widdowson, Denny Smith, Stephanie Hackley, Mark Sloan, Laura Sanborn, Kolos Kantor, Patrick Herman, Abel Aganbegyan, Claudio Bottaccini, Daniel Brunk, Douglas Daughaday, Scott Fincher, James Kindred, Andrew Jones, Jason Allen, Steven Baldwin, Jason Black, Stuart Brownlee, Shivam Chaturvedi, David Denholm, Tim Dorais, Glen Downton, Eneko Xabier, Elizondo Urrestarazu, Gordon Fulton, Sean Griffiths, Peter Halloran, John Jurcevic, Niklas Kildal, Jack Kobernick, Wes Kobernick, Valeri Kremer, Marc Lijoi, Sheri Loftin, Branden Loizides, Anatoliy Maslyanchuk, Blair Matson, Ocean Mcintyre, Laini Mitchell, Jeffrey Needle, André Pelletier, Juan Rivillas, Bret Robinson, Zenith Star, Lauren Steely, Ernest Stefan-Matyus, Mark Steven, Elena West, Barrett York, Tristan Zajonc, Preetumsingh Gowd, Shaun Kelsey, Chuck Wolfred, David Vennel, Emre Dessoi, Fahid Naeem, Francisco Rebolledo, Hauke Laging, James Falls, Jon Adams, Michael Gremillion, Pierce Rutherford, Trev Kline, Tristan Leger, Lasse Skov, Takashi Hanai, Drew Roberts, Erynn Wilson, Ian Baskerville, Jacob Bassnett, John Shackleford, Marcus Undin, Martin Kroebel, Ian Johnstone, Geoff Suter, Ian Hopcraft, James Valdes, Phil Akrill-Misso, William Robertson & Elizabeth Orman

::References used::

► Freese, K. et al., 2015, "Dark StarsA Review", Reports on Progress in Physics, 79, 066902

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► Ali (2001) Sony Pictures Releasing

► Snatch (2000) Sony Pictures Releasing

► The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) New Line Cinema

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► ESO/L. Calçada, INAFPadua/S. Zaggia

► NASA/WMAP

► NASA, Harvard CfA, Illustris Collaboration

► OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence

► KuoChuan Pan

► Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA/Joy Pollard [dont link]

► NASA/ESA/J. DePasquale/M. Kornmesser & M. Zamani, A. Riess & SH0ES

► LIGO Lab CaltechMIT/SXS project

► M. Bate, I. Bonnell & V. Bromm/U. of Exeter

► NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab, M. Norman & H. Xu (UC San Diego), B. O’Shea (Michigan State U.), J. Wise (Georgia Tech), K. Ahn (Chosun U.)

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