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Why Finding The First Stars In Our Universe Puts Us Closer To The Big Bang

March 12, 2018

From Colorado Public Radio: Astronomers have detected the first stars ever to shine in the universe, an event that happened more than 13 billion years ago. No one’s actually seen them -- scientists picked up their radio waves. But Doug Duncan, director emeritus of the Fiske Planetarium in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, says...

Photograph of the EDGES experiment showing the antenna used to verify the original measurements photo courtesy of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Astronomers Use Radio Waves to Look Back at First Stars in the Universe

March 2, 2018

From KJZZ 91.5 Radio: The story of the universe as we know it and the planet we live on begins with the first star. In 2016, the Hubble Telescope measured the oldest known galaxy in the universe — one that formed 400 million years after the Big Bang. A group...

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Scientists Find Signal From The First Stars In The Universe In A Monumental Moment For Astronomy

Feb. 28, 2018

From IFL Science: In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists say they have found a signal from some of the earliest stars in the universe, giving us an unparalleled glimpse into the dawn of the cosmos. The signals originate from hydrogen gas from just 180 million years after the Big Bang, itself...

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13.6 Billion Years Later, Astronomers have Found Clues to our Earliest Stars

Feb. 28, 2018

From The Verge: The first observation of the earliest stars in the Universe suggests they were forming about 180 million years after the Big Bang. The radio signal used to make this observation, though indirect, backs up some theoretical models about the evolution of the early Universe. In the beginning,...