Aaron Parsons

University of California

Articles by: Aaron Parsons

(This image is a compilation of 10 years of snapshots by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing one small patch of space in the constellation Fornax.)

What Happened to the Universe's Primordial Hydrogen?

By Aaron Parsons published

A new telescope aims to figure out what became of the universe's original atoms once the first stars began to shine. Most of them got broken apart - and conventional telescopes can't see past that.