The farside of the moon is the one place in the inner solar system where radio astronomers can find some peace and quiet. Astronomers have never seen these wavelengths because they’re so stretched out that they can’t be detected over the radio chatter bouncing around Earth. To solve it, scientists and engineers have identified an unlikely location for their work, one that could help shape the next generation of astronomical research: the farside of the moon.īefore the first stars, the universe didn’t emit visible light, but the primordial matter that pervaded the universe likely did emit radio signals. Unravelling this mystery is “one of the great objectives of modern-day astronomy,” he adds. “Honestly, we’ve got lots of stories and lots of predictions, but no measurements.” As things cooled off, something had to happen before the galaxies formed,” says Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist John Mather of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “The early universe had no galaxies, just hot stuff. How did we go from a gas-filled universe to the one we now see in the night sky? They call it the “dark ages” because, with no starlight to study, they’re left guessing where all the familiar stuff came from. But a huge blank still haunts astronomers. It's an altogether richer, more varied, and inclusive study on the creation of Britain.Just as it did when it first published 40 years ago, In Search of the Dark Ages overturns preconceptions of the Early Middle Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.We understand parts of what happened in the early universe. Now, on the book's 40th anniversary, this fully revised and expanded edition illuminates further the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest.Alongside portraits of Boadicea, King Arthur, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, the story of England is expanded further to include new voices, with all-new chapters on fascinating characters such as Penda of Mercia, Aethelflaed Lady of the Mercians, Hadrian the African, Eadgyth of England, and Wynflaed. In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the bestselling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians.

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In search of the dark ages