One moonshot plan would build a giant radio dish spanning an entire crater on the far side of the moon.
An illustration of a conceptual radio telescope within a crater on the moon.
Silk argues that lunar telescopes would open the door to a new era of major space discoveries.
A satellite trail streaks in front of galaxies in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Any radio telescope on the moon's back end would pick up the pure emissions of the universe.
Persons:
—, Vladimir Vustyansky, James Webb, Dallan Porter, Roger Angel, Joseph Silk, Jack Burns, Burns, That's, Stefica Nicol, Artemis, Ronald Polidan, FarView, Jack Burns Karan Jani, LILA, Fermilab LILA, Jani, NASA's James Webb, Temim, Webb, Angel, Chris Gunn, Nick Woolf, Angel Roger, Phil, Martin Elvis, Elvis
Organizations:
Service, NASA, Business, Vanderbilt Lunar Labs, Telescope, University of Arizona, American Astronomical Society, Payload, University of Colorado Boulder, Hubble Space, Hubble, ESA, Radio Telescope, REUTERS, NASA JPL, Caltech, Radio Science Investigations, Houston, Lunar Resources, Resources, Inc, Vanderbilt University, Fermilab, Telescopes, CSA, Princeton University, Engineers, James Webb Space, Industry, AP
Locations:
New Orleans, Australia