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Astronomers detect light from the Universe’s first stars

Surprises in signal from cosmic dawn also hint at presence of dark matter.
  1. Elizabeth Gibney
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Astronomers have for the first time spotted long-sought signals of light from the earliest stars ever to form in the Universe — around 180 million years after the Big Bang.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02616-8

Read the related News & Views article: ‘A surprising chill before the cosmic dawn’.

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