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The CosmoCube Satellite Will Listen to the Early Universe From the Far Side of the Moon


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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