The Sun is a third-generation star, polluted with the metals from long-dead stars. Astronomers have also discovered second-generation stars, with very low metallicity. But theories suggest there must be a first generation, with stars made from only pure hydrogen and helium. Can we ever find them?

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NASA Artemis (NASA)

JWST (NASA)

DART (JHUAPL)

Chinese space station epitome of aerospace workers’ wisdom: designer (CGTN)

InSight Mission – NASA’s InSight Mars Lander (NASA)

Overview | Sun (NASA)

Stars – Stellar Populations (Astronomy Online)

What is stellar magnitude? (EarthSky)

Population I (Swinburne University)

Population II (Swinburne University)

Population III (Swinburne University)

What is a globular cluster? (EarthSky)

Two planets around Kapteyn’s star: a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red dwarf (MNRAS Letters)

Pair-Instability Supernovae: What might they look like? (Astrobites)

Gamma radiation (ARPANSA)

Hydrostatic Equilibrium (Swinburne University)

Positron (Swinburne University)

Potential First Traces of the Universe’s Earliest Stars (NOIRLab)

Quasar (Swinburne University)

Gravitational Lensing (Hubblesite)

PDF: First Stars and First Light: The Epoch of Reionization (NSF)

What is the Cosmic Microwave Background? (Universe Today)

New insight of AGC 198691 (Leoncino) galaxy with MEGARA at the GTC (MNRAS)

Elemental Abundances (Center for Astrophysics)

Hubble Space Telescope

American Astronomical Society

241st AAS Meeting (AAS)

Supermassive Black Hole (Swinburne University)

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