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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 07:20 PM
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Even the Early Universe Had the Ingredients for Life


Researchers from Ehime University and Kyoto University have reported the detection of carbon emission lines in the most distant radio galaxy known. The research team used the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) on the Subaru Telescope to observe the radio galaxy TN J0924-2201. When the research team investigated the detected carbon line, they determined that significant amounts of carbon existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

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TheMadMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 12:42 AM
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1. AN ingredient of life. Also required, oxygen, nitrogen and a host...
...of other materials in greater and lesser amounts.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 09:12 AM
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2. But "Nucleosynthesis in Early Universe Faster than Expected" wouldn't be such a sexy headline !
More informative, maybe. It must have taken some really big, hot stars to litter the galaxy with carbon that early.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity#Population_III_stars
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 10:06 AM
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3. If I've been reading my modern cosmology right, the first stars were enormous.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 10:07 AM
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4. More evidence for the sad decline of Hollywood. nt
:evilgrin:
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tgearfanatic234 Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 01:03 AM
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5. very interesting stuff
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