The First Stars

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• Planck's view of the cosmic microwave background

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• Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403

  NASA/ESA Hubble Frontier Fields

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• Revealing the Nature of the Ultra-Faint Galaxy LAP1-B through a giant

  NAO

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• Universe Age 2025.

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• Scientific image

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• jades gs z14 0 pullout nircam image

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• ALMA oxygen detection in JADES-GS-z14-0

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• Image result for query 'SKA-Low first image 2026 antenna field'; source host: skao.int; file: DFM_M3Drone_Stills_May_25_00006-2.jpeg.

  SKAO

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• SKA-Low first radio sky image, unlabeled full-resolution version

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• newsroom image

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• Labeled diagram of radio telescope components

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Research references

Selected sources from the episode’s research and scientific figures.

1. ESA/Webb ↗
2. NASA asset ↗
3. NASA spectrum ↗
4. NAOJ release ↗
5. NASA LAMBDA τ history ↗
6. SKAO release ↗
7. BNL final assembly ↗
8. THESAN terms/gallery ↗
9. arXiv:1807.06209 ↗
10. arXiv:2408.02643 ↗
11. arXiv:2508.03842 ↗
12. arXiv:2306.00953 ↗
13. arXiv:2212.04476 ↗
14. arXiv:astro-ph/0108097 ↗
15. arXiv:2504.04683 ↗
16. arXiv:2607.22834 ↗
17. NASA ↗
18. CSIRO ↗
19. SDSS image-use policy ↗
20. SKAO media centre ↗
21. NASA SVS 10128 ↗
22. NASA images/media policy ↗
23. ESA/Webb copyright ↗
24. NAOJ terms ↗
25. https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/): ↗
26. https://esawebb.org/copyright/): ↗
27. https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/terms/copyright.html): ↗
28. https://www.thesan-project.com/thesan/images.html): ↗

Music

• Meditation From The Star Orion
  OctahedronMusic · Envato Elements