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Scientists have seen the first starlight ever recorded, and we don't mean the first incidence of a monkey marking something down – we mean the first star to send light which reached Earth. This light is the earliest, the furthest away, the most red-shifted, and every other factor that could possibly say: “Everything else ever came after this.” The bright light is also poignant as it results from a Gamma Ray Burst, GRB 090423, meaning that this first light comes from the death of a star imploding into a neutron star or even an early black hole

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Beginning of time discovered