Researchers may have found cosmic Rosetta stone
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 13:21
in Astronomy & Space
Star light, star bright. The first star grew fast, but began slight. The first cosmological object formed in the universe was a tiny protostar with a mass of about 1 percent of our sun, according to U.S. and Japanese researchers who spent years developing a complex computer simulation of what it was like after the Big Bang that formed the universe.
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