Astronomers make major discovery of MYSTERIOUS interstellar ‘fossil’ from the DAWN OF TIME

Mr Robert, a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, said in a statement: “Everywhere we look, the gas in the universe is polluted by waste heavy elements from exploding stars.”

He added: “But this particular cloud seems pristine, unpolluted by stars even 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.”

According to a forthcoming study in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the cloud, labeled LLS1723, shows no visible traces of any elements heavier than hydrogen.

Hydrogen is the primeval atom, produced at the beginning, in the hot, dense conditions of the birth of the universe itself.