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Astronomers Detect Light from the ­niverse's First Stars


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Radio telescope, Western Australia

A radio telescope in Western Australia has detected a sign of the light from the Universe's first stars.

Credit: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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.

From Nature
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