The first stars appeared 13.7 billion years ago. And 13.3 billion years ago, many of these stars had already gone out and enriched the cosmos with chemical elements. For many billions of years, stars were born and died to give our Universe the main thing - a variety of chemical elements. All living and non-living things on Earth are made up of these chemical elements.
And in this photo, one of the very first stars. It was recently discovered by the James Webb telescope. We see the light of this star as it was 12.8 billion years ago. I think that this star has long since died, only its light remains.
photo from NASA website - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-reveals-colors-of-earendel-most-distant-star-ever-detected
I am writing this post, looking at these stars and the starry sky in the window. I'm interested. I wonder how it all began in our universe. It's amazing how our young civilization has already learned so much about space.
I am alive, I have pieces of many exploding stars in me. These stars lived so that later I would live, you would live, there was life on the planets. And this life develops and acquires intelligence, and then acquires superintelligence and cognizes the Universe.