Cosmic dawn: Astronomers detect signals from universe's first stars

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Cosmic dawn: Astronomers detect signals from universe's first starsIn a first, scientists have detected a signal from "cosmic dawn" – or the moment when the universe's earliest stars shone in the sky. The Murchison Observatory in Western Australia made the breakthrough discovery on Wednesday. As per the research published in the journal Nature, the signal was a slight smidge in the radio echo of the era when the first stars were born. It was recorded with the help of a small radio telescope – the size of a regular table – which had been initially tuned in to detect the earliest possible traces of hydrogen. The hydrogen discovered was found in a state that could only be a result of being touched by the intense light of the stars. And...
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