More on possible “Dark Star” candidates observed by JWST

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This is an article from Scientific America …”The researchers can’t yet prove that the objects are dark stars—only that their characteristics are consistent with being either dark stars or galaxies populated by regular fusion-powered stars.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... ter-stars/?


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https://phys.org/news/2023-07-james-web ... dence.html
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thx for the infos .
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Wow, dark matter stars, my old astro club did a presentation about the possibility.
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Thanks for the link. More and more good stuff from the JWST.
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