Fresh Start: Scientists View Unaltered Traces Of Our Infant Universe. (stars, light)

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Another good read from Scientific American magazine.

These are the first known pockets of pristine primordial gas; unaltered by subsequent star formation.....the relics of clouds that were initially formed just minutes after the BIG BANG.

Fresh Start: Scientists Glimpse Unsullied Traces of the Infant Universe: Scientific American

Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years After the Big Bang

On the origin of chemical elements | Basic Space, Scientific American Blog Network

Astronomers find pristine clouds of primordial gas from the early Universe

Discovery: Pristine Primordial Gas 12 Billion Years Old

Found: pristine gas from the Big Bang - Astronomy Magazine

Astronomers Shed Light On Early Stars In Cosmos (PICTURES)

This is almost as far back "in time" as the WMAP image seen below.

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Astronomers shed light on early stars in cosmos | Science Headlines | Comcast.net (http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20111110/US.SCI.Early.Stars/ - broken link)

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One must remember that whatever image is presented humans are still confined to the spectrum of visible light we can "see".

I'm sure there is much, much more to "see" than humans will ever know of.

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Originally Posted by Tightwad

One must remember that whatever image is presented humans are still confined to the spectrum of visible light we can "see".

I'm sure there is much, much more to "see" than humans will ever know of.

Not necessarily. Astronomical observations are not limited to visible light. In fact, it happens to be a fraction of of observances.