These stars may have been born only 250 million years after the Big Bang

Observations of light from a far galaxy further indicate that stellar formation began early

MACS1149-JD1 galaxy

STAR START  Scientists find evidence that stars formed in a faraway galaxy (indicated by the boxes) when the universe was just 250 million years old.

NASA, ESA, W. Zheng/JHU, M. Postman/STScI and the CLASH Team

A measly 250 million years after the Big Bang, in a galaxy far, far away, what may be some of the first stars in the universe began to twinkle.