Indian astronomers have refuted the recent claim of a discovery of a radio wave signal from Cosmic Dawn, the time in the infancy of our Universe when the first stars and galaxies came into existence.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2018, a team of researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) and MIT in the US <\/span>detected a signal from stars emerging in the early universe <\/span>using data from the EDGES radio telescope<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The researchers <\/span>had claimed the discovery of a radio wave signaling the birth of the First Stars, However, the world awaited confirmation from independent researchers.<\/span><\/p>\n SARAS 3 radio telescope did not find any evidence of the radio wave signal claimed by the EDGES experiment.<\/span><\/p>\n SARAS 3 radio telescope was invented and built by the astronomers at <\/span>Raman Research Institute, an autonomous research institute engaged in research in basic sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n The telescope was <\/span>designed, built and deployed in India to detect extremely faint radio wave signals from the depths of time, from our \u201cCosmic Dawn\u201d when the first stars and galaxies formed in the early Universe.<\/span><\/p>\n Detecting a Radio wave signal from <\/span>Cosmic Dawn, the time in the infancy of our Universe when the first stars and galaxies came into existence, <\/span>is extremely difficult.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This is because the celestial signal is exceptionally faint \u2013 buried in sky radio waves that come to us from the gas in our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, which are a million times brighter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Besides, this cosmic signal is in a radio wavelength band used by numerous terrestrial communications equipment and TV and FM radio stations, which makes detecting the extra-terrestrial signal extremely difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>SARAS 3 radio telescope refutes recent claim of the discovery of a radio wave signal from cosmic dawn<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 4th Mar 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? Indian astronomers have refuted the recent claim of a discovery of a radio wave signal from Cosmic Dawn, the time in the infancy of our Universe when the first stars and galaxies came into existence. Background In 2018, a team of researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) and MIT in the… Continue reading SARAS 3 radio telescope refutes recent claim of the discovery of a radio wave signal from cosmic dawn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-172149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700653655},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Background<\/b><\/h5>\n
What did the SARAS 3 radio telescope find about this claim?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is <\/b>SARAS 3 Radio Telescope?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Why is it difficult to detect <\/b>radio wave signals from <\/b>an early period of the Universe?<\/b><\/h5>\n