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MrPlow [soylentnews.org] writes:

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Scientists have spotted an oxygen signal deep in the universe, suggesting it formed far differently from how we thought. The new discovery is the most distant oxygen ever seen by a telescope. And it could change our understanding of how stars and the universe as we know it came about. The galaxy is so far away that we are seeing it as it was when the universe was only 500 million years away. And even at that age, it is filled with mature stars – suggesting the process of their formation began only 250 million years after the universe itself began.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/oxygen-star-universe-formation-amla-vlt-discovery-age-a8354811.html [independent.co.uk]

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