Ground Telescopes Capture First Light from the Universe's Dawn
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Astronomers using the CLASS telescopes in Chile have for the first time observed signals from the universe's first stars, shedding light on the Cosmic Dawn approximately 800 million years after the Big Bang by detecting faint polarized microwave signals from the cosmic microwave background, which helps understand the universe's early evolution.
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