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Building Earth’s largest telescope on the far side of the moon – CBC.ca

NASA engineers are planning a robotically constructed kilometre diameter radio telescope that will fit in a giant crater and study radio waves from the big bang….

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NASA engineers are studying the feasibility of building a massive, kilometre-wide radio telescope on the moon that would dwarf anything we could build on Earth.
The telescope, which would be constructed by robots, would take the form of a huge, wire-mesh antenna in a dish shape that would hang suspended in a three-kilometre-wide crater on the far side of the moon. 
The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope
 would provide a unique perspective on the early universe, though it likely won’t be built for decades,…

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