Comments on: The First Stars Started Small, Grew Fast, and Died Young http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/31/the-first-stars-started-small-grew-fast-and-died-young/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/31/the-first-stars-started-small-grew-fast-and-died-young/#comment-2264 Eliza Strickland Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:33:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/31/the-first-stars-started-small-grew-fast-and-died-young/#comment-2264 That was quite a typo on my part -- my sincere apologies. I edited the post to reflect reality: "According the researchers' simulation, those areas reached a tipping point around 300 million years after the Big Bang, igniting the first nuclear reactions." That was quite a typo on my part — my sincere apologies. I edited the post to reflect reality:

“According the researchers’ simulation, those areas reached a tipping point around 300 million years after the Big Bang, igniting the first nuclear reactions.”

]]> By: Blizno http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/31/the-first-stars-started-small-grew-fast-and-died-young/#comment-2239 Blizno Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:51:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/31/the-first-stars-started-small-grew-fast-and-died-young/#comment-2239 "...around 300 million years ago that ignited the first nuclear reactions..." WHAT?!?!? What is the story trying to say? That nuclear fusion didn't start anywhere in the universe until dinosaurs were striding the Earth? What? What?!? “…around 300 million years ago that ignited the first nuclear reactions…”

WHAT?!?!? What is the story trying to say? That nuclear fusion didn’t start anywhere in the universe until dinosaurs were striding the Earth? What? What?!?

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