NASA is developing a plan to build an Arecibo-like telescope

NASA is developing a plan to build an Arecibo-like telescope on the moon
mmcfalljohnsen@insider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen)
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An illustration of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope concept. Vladimir Vustyansky
It could function similarly to the Arecibo telescope, which collapsed in December.
A lunar telescope could hear radio waves from the early universe that Earth-based telescopes can't.
NASA is paying a team of researchers to develop a plan for a telescope on the far side of the moon.
The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), as the concept is called, would be a lot like the Arecibo telescope, which collapsed in December. A huge dish would collects radio waves from the cosmos and amplify them so that scientists could analyze the signals. The difference is that on the moon, such a telescope would be shielded from the cacophony of radio signals that such a device on Earth would hear from all kinds of equipment and satellites.

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