Why NASA is building a gigantic telescope on the far side of the Moon
NASA's Lunar Crater Radio Telescope could help us study the cosmic dark ages
Exploring the wonders of the Cosmos, one mystery at a time.
Exploring the wonders of the Cosmos, one mystery at a time.
Following the Big Bang, our budding Universe slowly cooled, and the first atoms took shape. Gravity gradually pulled on clumps of hydrogen and helium gas, forming the earliest stars. This era, lasting a few hundred million years prior to the large-scale formation of stars, is called the cosmic dark ages.
The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), an ambitious concept to place a massive radio telescope on the far side of the Moon, would study the Universe during this ancient era in detail for the very first time.