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“Astronomers detect light from the Universe’s first stars” is the headline of a Nature news article, which appeared 28 February 2018. It relates to observations made by a team of astronomers led by Judd Bowman of Arizona State University in Tempe. The team published their results in Nature the same week. According to Bowman,To read the rest, click on "Has light from the first stars after the big bang been detected?"
This is the first time we’ve seen any signal from this early in the Universe, aside from the afterglow of the Big Bang.They used a small radio-telescope situated in the Western Australian desert, far away from human settlement to minimize interference from radio signals generated by human technology.
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