NASA is developing plans to build an enormous, Arecibo-like telescope inside a crater on the moon

An illustration of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope concept.
Vladimir Vustyansky
NASA is funding research into how a radio telescope could be built on the far side of the moon.
It could function similarly to the Arecibo telescope, which collapsed in December.
A lunar telescope could hear radio waves from the early universe that Earth-based telescopes can't.
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NASA is paying a team of researchers to develop a plan for a telescope on the far side of the