Astronomers have now peered right back to the «Cosmic Dawn» — when the first stars were beginning to fire up — by picking up
an extremely faint radio signal that marks the earliest evidence of hydrogen, just 180 million years after the Big Bang.
Now, astronomers from MIT and Arizona State University have peered right back to the «Cosmic Dawn» — the time when the first stars were beginning to fire up — by picking up
an extremely faint radio signal that marks the earliest evidence of hydrogen, just 180 million years after the Big Bang.
They found these molecules not with optical telescopes but by tuning in with exquisitely sensitive antenna dishes that can receive
the extremely faint radio signals generated by molecular clouds.
Not exact matches
The combination of its unblocked aperture and active surface promise that the GBT will display
extremely high sensitivity to
faint radio signals.