/newsroom/taxonomy/term/19290/all en /newsroom/channels/news/how-different-were-galaxies-early-universe-347633 <p>An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting the “cosmic dawn” — the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom.</p> <p>A team of scientists from across North America, Europe, and South Africa has doubled the sensitivity of a radio telescope called the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (<a href="https://reionization.org/">HERA</a>). With this breakthrough, they hope to peer into the secrets of the early universe.</p> Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:55:59 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 298481 at /newsroom