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Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: The First Star

"A massive blazing behemoth"

*Some wrangling theories as to just when it formed after the Big Bang.  It likely possessed 100 times the mass of Sol, emitted vast amounts of energetic radiation, and lived fast/died young -- probably only 2 to 3 million year life span.  Its color was likely blue-violet.   

Its supernova sparked the next generation of stars.  They're estimating that 5 million years afterwards it birthed 100 stars; within 10 million years the universe possessed 10,000 stars.

Time traveling back that far; our supercomputers still struggle to accomplish it.

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)