Interstellar Surprises, Ancient Fossils, and AI Breakthroughs – Top Science News (Sept 3–4, 2025)
JWST Discovers Candidate “Pristine” Galaxy: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers reported finding a distant galaxy almost entirely devoid of heavy elements, dubbed AMORE6 scitechdaily.com. If confirmed, this would mark the first-ever observation of a Population III galaxy – a primordial system of stars formed just ~900 million years after the Big Bang, containing only hydrogen and helium scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com. “The existence of galaxies with no elements such as Oxygen… is a key prediction of the cosmological model,” the research team noted, yet until now no zero-metallicity galaxy had been identified scitechdaily.com. JWST saw that AMORE6 emits hydrogen signals but no oxygen line, indicating an extremely low metallicity, “near pristine” interstellar medium scitechdaily.com. This discovery boosts confidence in Big Bang models of how the first stars forged heavier elements. If AMORE6 truly has no metals, it’s like witnessing a fossil galaxy from the dawn of the universe, finally confirming what astronomers long expected, experts said scitechdaily.com.
