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Paramount among the processes that ended the cosmic dark ages must have been the emergence of a first generation of stars. I review recent results on their formation out of metal-free gas, and discuss related open questions that still defy our understanding.
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Bromm, V. The formation of the first luminous objects in the universe. Astrophysics and Space Science 284, 349–352 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024030127500
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