Why Are Star Numbers Reversed? A Slightly Funny Story About Populations I, II, and III
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When you start learning about the history of the universe,
there is a term that makes many people tilt their heads in confusion at first.
Population I
Population II
Population III
If you think about it normally,
I should be the first, followed by II and III as they get newer.
However, in the universe, it is the opposite.
The first stars born in the universe were
Population III.
The next were
Population II.
And relatively new stars like our sun are
Population I.
The numbers are perfectly reversed.
The reason is very human.
It is because astronomers simply called the first stars they observed
Population I
.
After that,
"It seems there are even older stars out there"
led to the creation of
Population II.
As cosmology advanced further,
"No, there must have been stars before that"
was concluded, and
Population III was added.
Thus, the history of the universe is
III → II → I
This is the somewhat strange order in which they came to be described.
Science sometimes
carries the baggage of such naming history.
However, hidden behind these slightly confusing numbers
is the long flow of time in the universe.
It is the moment the first stars lit up in the dark universe.
In the epic of the universe's birth, that event
is depicted as the "First Stars."
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