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Lunar Radio Telescope to Unlock Cosmic Mysteries(spectrum.ieee.org)
12 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | 1 comments
8bitsrule an hour ago | parent [-]

Very readable explanation of why and how useful a dark-side lunar radio telescope would be.

TLDR: As a result of expansion of the universe, over 13B years the wavelength of neutral hydrogen signals has been stretched from 21cm to 'tens of meters'. On Earth, this part of the spectrum is cluttered with noise from Earth and Sun. For 14 days at a time...not a problem on the dark-side.