Science
A 100-Meter Rotating Liquid Mirror Telescope on the Moon? Yes Please. – Universe Today
A team from UT Austin has renewed a proposal for a liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon that could study the first stars in the Universe.
In the coming years, some truly awesome next-generation telescopes are going to be gathering their first light. Between space telescopes like James Webband Nancy Grace Roman, and ground-based telescopes like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), astronomers will be able to study aspects of the Universe that were previously inaccessible.
For instance, there are Population III stars, which are the first stars to have formed in the Universe. These stars are not…
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