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If we can't detect the first stars, maybe we can see their first galaxies

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Population III (PopIII) stars represent astronomy's ultimate prize: the first generation of stars born from the pristine hydrogen and helium created in the Big Bang .

These theoretical giants, potentially hundreds of times more massive than our sun, should have been fundamentally different from any stars we see today .

Traditional searches have focused on finding completely metal-free systems, looking for the brief signature of prominent helium emission without any heavy element contamination.

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