The new images—of when the cosmos was a mere 380,000 years old—show the "first steps towards making the earliest stars and galaxies." ...

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

are the most precise "baby pictures" to date of the cosmos' "first steps" toward forming the first stars and galaxies. The images of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is a fossil relic ...