Astronomers may not have found a sign of the universe’s first stars after all
A new experiment finds no hint of the ‘cosmic dawn’ claimed by an earlier study
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An antenna on a lake in India (shown) found no sign of the universe’s first stars in the radio waves that the instrument picked up, calling a previously reported measurement into question.
SARAS 3 team