A team of astronomers have announced their detection of the cosmic dawn of the Universe, 180 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers have been trying to detect this epoch of Cosmic Dawn, when the Universe lit up with its first stars, for many years. Astronomers have now announced their discovery of such a signal at low radio frequencies, between 65 and 90 MHz. They found a reduction in the radio signal from a large part of the sky in this range of frequencies. Hence, the inference that the first stars turned on as early as 180 million years after the Big Bang.

Source: Indian Express March 02, 2018 19:41 UTC