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The first stars in the Universe, with Dr Emma Chapman

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The Edger's Experiment

In two thousand and 18 to call from a u k. Newspaper asking me to read an embargoed paper. I fent sure il read this. It's an experiment that i've kind of i've heard of, but i've not really been ta interested in. And i read that it's made a first detection of the first star's era,. Of when the first stars formed. And i waias, i mean, i was apsotly shocked. We got at first beas information s so excited, i i didn't care if it was competing technical experiment. What happened is that they studied radio waves from this missing billion years. They took the temperature of the hydrogen

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