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: Analysis of the light showed high amounts of ionized oxygen and hydrogen, signaling that the first generations of stars had already begun "seeding" the universe with the elements necessary for future planets and life.

Everything changed with the arrival of the . Unlike its predecessors, JWST’s NIRCam instrument was designed specifically to see the stretched, "redshifted" light from this era. : Analysis of the light showed high amounts

Here is a story of discovery centered on that distant frontier: The Echo of the First Stars Here is a story of discovery centered on

For decades, astronomers peered through the Hubble Space Telescope, searching for the "cosmic dawn"—the moment the first stars flickered to life. They found a faint smudge in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a galaxy later confirmed to exist at . To Hubble, it was just a ghostly hint, a pixelated whisper of the past. it was just a ghostly hint