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Murchison Widefield Array antennas in Western Australia
These antennas in the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, located in Western Australia, are grouped closely together and allow astronomers to search for the faintest signals in the universe.
[Research supported by National Science Foundation grant AST 1613040.]
Learn more about this research in the Brown University news story Scientists inch closer than ever to signal from cosmic dawn. (Date image taken: 2016; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Jan. 14, 2020)
Credit: Greg Rowbotham, ICRAR/UWA
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