... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... stars . ... The universe's first objects . New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the universe. ... The remaining background light is from a period of time when the universe was less than one billion years old, and most likely originated from the universe's very first groups of objects — either huge stars or voracious black holes. ...