Lighting Up the Dark Ages

Woo, Marcus Y. (2013) Lighting Up the Dark Ages. Engineering and Science, 76 (4). pp. 30-35. ISSN 0013-7812 https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:20170811-143147168

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Abstract

Not long after the big bang — a mere 370,000 years later— the universe entered what astronomers now call the dark ages. The cosmos had yet to see the light of stars and galaxies; in fact, a cloak of hydrogen haze smothered almost any photon that might have tried to illuminate the infant universe.


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