id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-005410 Second-generation stars identified, giving clues about their predecessors | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 795 27 51 University of Notre Dame astronomers have identified what they believe to be the second generation of stars, shedding light on the nature of the universe’s first stars. “These stars, located in the halo system of our galaxy, are true second-generation stars — born out of the nucleosynthesis products of the very first stars.” Beers says it’s unlikely that any of the universe’s first stars still exist, but much can be learned about them from detailed studies of the next generation of stars. cache/news-005410.html txt/news-005410.txt