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In Green Bank, West Virginia sits a field of 64 antennas made by the machinists there. These antennas are searching the distant Universe for the first starlight the Cosmos ever produced, billions of years ago. The project is called PAPER, the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization. It is a partnership between NRAO staff scientists and scientists at UC-Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, and SKA South Africa.

Credit: B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF

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