Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies are the most metal-deficient star-forming galaxies known in the universe, with metallicities ranging from 1/40 to 1/3 that of the Sun. I review how they constitute excellent nearby laboratories for studying big bang nucleosynthesis and star formation and galaxy evolution processes in a nearly primordial environment. © 2008 International Astronomical Union 2008.
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Thuan, T. X. (2008). Blue compact dwarf galaxies: Laboratories for probing the primordial universe. In Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (Vol. 4, pp. 348–360). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921308025064
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