Heavy elements spread through the universe earlier than scientists expected
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JWST observations indicate that galaxies were producing and dispersing carbon, oxygen and other heavy elements only 500 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was about 3% of its current age. The finding suggests chemical enrichment began early and may have erased traces of the first stars.
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