Are we about to see the first stars ever in the universe?
We might be. We ("we" as in the human race) just discovered the farthest galaxy ever. It has the sexy name of "z8_GND_5296," and is about 30 billion light years from Earth (hard to wrap your head around that). It appears to us, via telescope, as it was 13.1 billion years ago because the universe is actually expanding. We can go down a pretty deep wormho…
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