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NASA plans to build a giant radio telescope on the 'dark side' of the moon. Here's why.

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Texas universities help build ‘giant’ telescope as it enters final design phase

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the largest telescopes ever built is one step closer to completion. On June 12, the National Science Foundation announced that the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is entering the ...
Wired

Building The Biggest Telescope You Can Buy

Hey, you. Yes you! Do you have roughly $600K to spend and an insatiable desire to explore the cosmos? The PlaneWave CDK1000 Telescope System is precisely the premium product you’re looking for. WIRED ...
AOL

The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...
KITV

Fight against proposed telescopes on Haleakala

MAUI, Hawaiʻi (Island News) -- A new proposal to build telescopes on Haleakalā's summit is reigniting a fight that has been ongoing for more than a decade. This time, the U.S. Air Force is looking to ...
Phys.org

It's time to build a space telescope interferometer—this could be the first step

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of which is that the Earth is dwarfed by the size and brightness of the sun. We ...
AOL

The Quest to Build a Radio Telescope That Can Hear the Cosmic Dark Ages

For radio astronomy, things get even better during the lunar night, when the sun drops beneath the horizon and is blocked by the moon’s mass. For up to 14 Earth-days at a time, a spot on the moon’s ...