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I got an interesting bulletin here from Science Daily. I usually depend on JPL to provide some good bulletins to pass along to you guys. But I have other sources as well during the government shutdown. too much of any news, stellarly or any other way because of the shutdown. I rely on other sources. I found this one interesting. The universe's first radio waves could reveal dark matter. Faint radio whispers from the cosmic dark ages may hold the secrets of dark is true nature. So here's another example by a radio with astronomy. So here we go. For the first time, researchers at Tel Aviv University have predicted what might be discovered by detecting radio waves that originated in the early universe. Their results suggest that during the cosmic dark ages, dark matter gathered into dense clumps across space, pulling in hydrogen gas that emitted intense radio waves. This new approach could offer a way to investigate one of science's biggest mysteries, the true nature of dark matter, studying the cosmic dark ages from the moon. According to the researchers, the cosmic dark ages, the period just before the first stars formed, can be explored by detecting radio waves emitted by the hydrogen gas that once filled the Earth. Although everyday antennas easily detect radio waves, the signals from this ancient era are blocked by Earth's atmosphere. Studying them requires instruments in space, especially on the moon, where the lack of an atmosphere and human-made interference provides ideal conditions. Building a telescope on the lunar surface is a formidable task, but the timing may be right. A global race is underway to return to the moon, with the United States, Europe, China, and India all pursuing new lunar missions. These agencies are seeking meaningful scientific objectives for future moon projects, and this new research underscores the potential of lunar-based radio astronomy to probe the early universe.