Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon to eavesdrop on whispers from the early universe
- A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic dark ages, before the universe’s first stars appeared?
- This whisper, known as the 21-centimetre line, is a signal emitted by hydrogen atoms
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- A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic dark ages, before the universe’s first stars appeared?
- This whisper, known as the 21-centimetre line, is a signal emitted by hydrogen atoms
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