There has been quite a bit of media coverage about the reported detection of signals from the earliest stars in the Universe using the EDGES antenna at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. In case you missed it, there’s a CSIRO blog covering the main points.

The image above (credit: N.R. Fuller, US National Science Foundation) is a rendering of how the first stars in the Universe may have impacted their environment. The full paper appears in this week’s issue of Nature .