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The quest to build a radio telescope that can hear the cosmic dark ages
The catch: It will have to be on the moon ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is currently in the planning phase but could soon become ...
A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble.
On Wednesday, Schmidt Sciences - an organization funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt - announced an ambitious initiative to build a space telescope larger than Hubble ...
Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...
Prior to World War II the vast majority of telescopes built around the world were funded by wealthy people with an interest in the heavens above. However, after the war, two significant developments ...
Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.
Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike ...
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