Ep 48: Let There be Light: First Stars and Cosmic Dawn

Published: Aug. 7, 2018, 1:23 p.m.

b'Billions of years ago, the first star was born, and the Universe was never the same. But how do we know what these first stars were like? How did the stars change the Universe to what we see today? Today we are joined by Dr. Harish Vedantham from the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy to discuss how we can observe these first stars, the radio array LOFAR, and how hard it is to see back in time.'