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Science publishes landmark article, “Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years After the Big Bang.” After The Aftermath Astronomers have found two clouds of gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang that created our universe, a new study reveals. This discovery is the first time these gas clouds have been detected and adds more support to what is already the most widely accepted theory of how our universe came to be, astronomers said. The primordial gas clouds were found to contain only the lightest elements — hydrogen and helium — that were created in the Big Bang. A few hundred million years later, clumps of these gas clouds condensed to form the first stars, which created and dispersed heavier elements throughout the universe. The new observations appear to match the theoretical predictions about the chemical makeup of the early universe, said study leader Michele Fumagalli, a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). “It’s actually a very nice confirmation of the theory, because the theory predicts that in the first few minutes after the Big Bang, things like hydrogen and helium were produced and no metals. So, this is the first time that we have a very strong observation and evidence that indeed this theory is correct. It’s good news for cosmology.” Full article: Primordial Gas Clouds Reveal Glimpse of Big Bang’s Aftermath

Science publishes landmark article, “Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years After the Big Bang.”

After The Aftermath

Astronomers have found two clouds of gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang that created our universe, a new study reveals.

This discovery is the first time these gas clouds have been detected and adds more support to what is already the most widely accepted theory of how our universe came to be, astronomers said.

The primordial gas clouds were found to contain only the lightest elements — hydrogen and helium — that were created in the Big Bang. A few hundred million years later, clumps of these gas clouds condensed to form the first stars, which created and dispersed heavier elements throughout the universe.

The new observations appear to match the theoretical predictions about the chemical makeup of the early universe, said study leader Michele Fumagalli, a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).

“It’s actually a very nice confirmation of the theory, because the theory predicts that in the first few minutes after the Big Bang, things like hydrogen and helium were produced and no metals. So, this is the first time that we have a very strong observation and evidence that indeed this theory is correct. It’s good news for cosmology.”

Full article: Primordial Gas Clouds Reveal Glimpse of Big Bang’s Aftermath

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Hope to see you there. From jtotheizzoe: I want to tell you about ScienceOnline2012 - the sixth annual conference exploring science on the Web. Science needs your help. It is under attack from deniers - people who deny the facts and people who deny that it can be AWESOME. I, and many others, are working to change that. ScienceOnline is an annual conference that brings together the best in science journalists, creators, researchers, artists, filmmakers and bloggers (and more!) to pave the way into the future. It’s an un-conference, and everyone who attends contributes. I am a graduate student who runs this blog by himself, and I can’t thank everyone enough for the positive response I have gotten over the past year and a half of doing this. I am motivated by you every day. I want to go represent what we are doing on Tumblr (and across the web in general) at ScienceOnline. And after that, I hope to continue to bring the message anywhere I can (even your town). So if anyone would like to help  by contributing to travel costs and to support the growth of this effort, I have put up a PayPal link on my blog page. If you find joy in the science and want to help, however modest, thank you. Science Ninjas Unite! Together we can change science. Oh, and if anyone else wants to come along, I’d love to see you in North Carolina at ScienceOnline 2012 :) If you’re just here for the star pictures or the puppies or for my cool t-shirt, please disregard everything you have read.

Hope to see you there. From jtotheizzoe:

I want to tell you about ScienceOnline2012 - the sixth annual conference exploring science on the Web.

Science needs your help. It is under attack from deniers - people who deny the facts and people who deny that it can be AWESOME. I, and many others, are working to change that.

ScienceOnline is an annual conference that brings together the best in science journalists, creators, researchers, artists, filmmakers and bloggers (and more!) to pave the way into the future. It’s an un-conference, and everyone who attends contributes.

I am a graduate student who runs this blog by himself, and I can’t thank everyone enough for the positive response I have gotten over the past year and a half of doing this. I am motivated by you every day. I want to go represent what we are doing on Tumblr (and across the web in general) at ScienceOnline. And after that, I hope to continue to bring the message anywhere I can (even your town).

So if anyone would like to help  by contributing to travel costs and to support the growth of this effort, I have put up a PayPal link on my blog page. If you find joy in the science and want to help, however modest, thank you.

Science Ninjas Unite! Together we can change science. Oh, and if anyone else wants to come along, I’d love to see you in North Carolina at ScienceOnline 2012 :)

If you’re just here for the star pictures or the puppies or for my cool t-shirt, please disregard everything you have read.

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