Astronomers may have detected first starlight

Researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland believe they have captured traces of radiation from long-extinguished stars that were "born" during the universe's infancy.

The research represents the first tangible -- but not conclusive evidence of these earliest stars, which are thought to have produced the raw materials from which future stars, including our sun, were created.

The Big Bang, the explosion believed to have created the universe, is thought to have occurred 13.7 billion years ago. About 100 million years later, hydrogen atoms began to merge and ignite, creating brightly burning stars. Just what these stars were like wasn't clear.

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Seanie.

I've heard a few pod casts about this and read some stories and it all seem a bit far fetched to me. "The light isn't coming from anything we can think of so it must be coming form what we want to think it comes from". I'll wait for some stronger proof!

BB