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Astronomy

The Cosmic Dawn: First Light and the Epoch of Reionization

Quick fact

Astronomers have detected the faint radio signal from hydrogen gas during the Cosmic Dawn, revealing that the first stars began ionizing the universe about 180 million years after the Big Bang.

Why this is interesting

Have you ever wondered what the universe looked like before there were any stars? The first few hundred million years were a dark, featureless void—until something extraordinary happened.