Free Astronomy Magazine July-August 2023

JULY-AUGUST 2023 Distant gas clouds with leftovers of the first stars by ESO − Juan Carlos Muñoz Mateos U sing ESO’s Very Large Tele- scope (VLT), researchers have found for the first time the fingerprints left by the explosion of the first stars in the Universe. They detected three distant gas clouds whose chemical composition matches what we expect from the first stellar explosions. These findings bring us one step closer to understanding the