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Published online 21 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021118-8
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Universe's first winter was snowy
Hydrogen flakes dusted cosmos before there were stars or planets.
There was snow during the Universe's first winter, say two physicists in Switzerland. Fleeting flakes, not of ice but hydrogen, may have filled the cosmos, in silence and total darkness.
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