The First Stars Continued

Here is the image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. An infrared telescope allows us to see objects at high redshifts. The right image shows stars and galaxies in Ursa Major, the Great Bear. The left image shows the same patch of sky after foreground objects have been removed by computer.

Like the Cosmic Microwave Background image this resembles, there is room for interpretation. Some have argued that the WMAP team did not properly remove foreground objects from the CMB, leading to misinterpretations of the data. Simulations by Tom Abell and others have attempted to reconstruct the first stars. These in the Spitzer photograph are 10 times as massive as the simulations suggested. Presence of primordial singularities might explain this discrepancy.