First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time

The universe and how it came to be is outlined in First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time. There are approximately one billion years at the beginning of time that current research in astrophysics can finally account for. The author tells the story of how the first stars came to be and what they teach us about the universe today. By using newer, immense telescopes, we can look for echoes and footprints of these stars to explain how the universe came to be