Experiment to See the Dawn of Galaxies Gets Big Funding Boost

What did the universe look like as the very first stars and galaxies blazed into existence? The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), also known as the "Cosmic Dawn" telescope, will use radio waves to study the hydrogen atoms that filled the universe around the time that the first stars began to form. The Nation Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) announced last week that the National Science Foundation approved $9.5 million in funding to expand HERA.