A Quiet Spot to View the Past

On the far side of the moon, shielded from the noise of Earth's constant broadcast of radio waves, the proposed Lunar Array for Radio Cosmology would search for the faint radio-wave radiation left behind by the primordial gas that existed before stars and galaxies were formed.

SOURCE: Jacqueline N. Hewitt, MIT | GRAPHIC: Patterson Clark, The Washington Post - February 25, 2008

This Story Plan for Telescopes on Moon's Far Side Is Revived Article \| Since the beginning of the space age, astronomers have dreamed of putting telescopes and other instruments on the far side of the moon. Transcript: Science: Telescopes on the Far Side of the Moon A Quiet Spot to View the Past A Schematic of Time Since the Big Bang		Network News X Profile View More Activity TOOLBOX E-Mail This Reprints
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