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Stuart Bale

Stuart Bale

NASA Principal Investigator, UC Berkeley

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"This measurement is very challenging, radio emission from the galaxy is very bright and our Dark Ages signal is hiding behind it." — on the technical difficulty of detecting the 21cm signal

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First radio telescope heads to Moon's far side

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Leading NASA's scientific and engineering effort

The cosmic Dark Ages were a 200-million-year stretch after the Big Bang — just hydrogen gas, no stars. No instrument has ever detected light from this period: Earth's atmosphere blocks the radio frequencies, and human electronics drown out the faint signals.

Updated May 23