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Researchers: First stars formed later than thought

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From Science Daily:

ESA’s Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the Universe started forming later than previous observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background indicated. This new analysis also shows that these stars were the only sources needed to account for reionising atoms in the cosmos, having completed half of this process when the Universe had reached an age of 700 million years. More. Paper. (public access) – Matthieu Tristram and Collaboration. Planck intermediate results. XLVII. Planck constraints on reionization history. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2016; DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201628897

Doesn’t that reduce the time for origin of life?

See also: Galaxy started forming stars only 200 million years after the Big Bang?

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