Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield
A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic dark ages, before the universe’s first stars appeared?
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A small UK satellite, about the size of a carry-on suitcase, aims to investigate the cosmic dark ages that occurred before the first stars formed. By using the Moon as a shield, it could provide crucial insights into this mysterious period of the universe’s history.
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