Using a small radio telescope at our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia, US astronomers have detected a signal from the first stars to have emerged in the early universe about 180 million years after the Big Bang. In future, the MRO will also be home to 130,000 ground-based antennas that make up the low-frequency component of the international Square Kilometre Array. This discovery bodes well for the exciting science to be done by the SKA.