From The Tundra: FarView: One-Of-A-Kind Lunar Observatory Screen Shot with Jack Burns
FarView: One-Of-A-Kind Lunar Observatory

March 18, 2021

From The Tundra: Lunar Resources, Inc., of Houston, Texas, and the University of Colorado Boulder are launching a new research effort to lay the groundwork for a one-of-a-kind lunar radio astronomy observatory called the Lunar Farside Radio Observatory, or FarView—a network of hundreds of miles of antennas constructed on the...

Fraser Cain and Jack Burns discussion on YouTube
The Lunar FARSIDE Telescope

March 16, 2021

From Universe Today: Fraser Cain spoke with Dr. Jack Burns, the Principle Investigator for the Lunar FARSIDE telescope about installing a radio telescope on the farside of the Moon that would be capable of observing the first stars and black holes during the Dark Ages and Epoch of Reionization. Watch...

Photo from NASA of the farside of the Moon
CU Boulder team funded for lunar radio observatory

March 14, 2021

From the Daily Camera: The University of Colorado Boulder is teaming up with Lunar Resources Inc., of Houston, to place a radio observatory on the far side of the moon by 2030. The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts recently awarded the team a $125,000 grant to fund a nine-month research...

Artist's depiction of a robot laying out an antenna on the lunar surface.
NASA-funded project to explore one-of-a-kind lunar observatory

March 1, 2021

From CU Boulder Today : Lunar Resources, Inc. of Houston, Texas, and the University of Colorado Boulder are launching a new research effort to lay the groundwork for a one-of-a-kind lunar radio astronomy observatory —a network of hundreds of miles of antennas constructed on the far side of the moon...

Artist’s rendition of the Dark Ages Polarimetry Pathfinder (DAPPER) spacecraft, which will seek out faint radio signals from the early universe while operating in low lunar orbit. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
Telescopes on Far Side of the Moon Could Illuminate the Cosmic Dark Ages

Jan. 15, 2021

From Scientific American: The far side of the moon is poised to become our newest and best window on the hidden history of the cosmos. Over the course of the next decade, astronomers are planning to perform unprecedented observations of the early universe from that unique lunar perch using radio...

An artist's conception of astronauts setting up a lunar telescope array. Credit: NASA
Astronomers Want to Plant Telescopes on the Moon

Dec. 17, 2020

From Inside Science: For decades, even before the iconic Hubble telescope took flight, astronomers have been launching spacecraft into orbit in the hopes of avoiding atmospheric effects that blur images taken by telescopes on Earth. But to catch clear signals of some cosmic objects, even those orbits aren’t high enough...

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Scientific Sense podcast features Dr. Jack Burns

Dec. 11, 2020

From the Scientific Sense podcast: Artemis - A whole new program to travel to the moon and to establish a habitat there including an observatory, gateway that orbits with self propulsion and designing a launch pad for future exploration of the solar system including Mars. Prof. Jack Burns is a...

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3 questions after the discovery of water molecules on the sunlit moon

Oct. 30, 2020

From PBS News Hour: In 2018, astronomers directly confirmed for the first time that water, in the form of ice, is on the moon’s surface. Aptly named water ice resides in the coldest, darkest parts of our planet’s satellite, like the shadow-shrouded craters that dot its polar regions, the deepest...

Artist illustration of the Dark Ages Polarimetry Pathfinder (DAPPER), which will look for faint radio signals from the early universe while operating in a low lunar orbit. Its specialized radio receiver and high-frequency antenna are currently being developed by NRAO. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sophia Dagnello
A Roadmap for Science on the Moon

Sept. 30, 2020

From CU Boulder Today: Scientists at CU Boulder have laid out a roadmap for a decade of scientific research at the moon. Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or proposed space missions that seek to use the moon as a unique laboratory for peering back to the...

Artist illustration of the Dark Ages Polarimetry Pathfinder (DAPPER), which will look for faint radio signals from the early universe while operating in a low lunar orbit. Its specialized radio receiver and high-frequency antenna are currently being developed by NRAO. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sophia Dagnello
NRAO Joins Space Mission to the Far Side of the Moon to Explore the Early Universe

Sept. 22, 2020

National Radio Astronomy Observatory News Release: The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has joined a new NASA space mission to the far side of the Moon to investigate when the first stars began to form in the early universe. The universe was dark and foggy during its “dark ages,” just...

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