ENG: Researchers from the University of Bath, together with collaborators from the University of Chicago and the Paris Institute of Astrophysics, have used advanced simulations to investigate how the first stars and galaxies formed and enriched the early Universe with chemical elements. The work is part of the international MEGATRON project, which began in 2023 and is scheduled to continue until 2030. Four studies published in the Open Journal of Astrophysics provide the project’s first major set of results and aim to connect observations of early galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope with the chemical signatures preserved in ancient stars in and around the Milky Way.
