FARSIDE News
- From Forbes: In the foothills of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain front range, an area well known for cutting-edge space technology, Jack Burns, a longtime astrophysics professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, may finally be seeing a decades-old
- From Leonard David’s Inside Outer Space: Earth’s Moon is being eyed as an on-location locale for operating unique and novel observatories. The just-concluded NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium was the setting for reviewing several
- From Forbes: Let’s do astronomy from the Moon. Spurred on by the collapse of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, the continuing degradation of the night sky by light pollution and the coming era of mega-constellations of satellites come four
- From WIRED: The Universe is constantly beaming its history to us. For instance: Information about what happened long ago contained in the long-length radio waves that are ubiquitous throughout the universe, likely hold the details about how the
- From UPI: NASA scientists, as well as astronomers around the world, plan to install lunar observatories in the next few years to peer into the universe's ancient past -- just after the Big Bang.Science equipment headed to the moon already includes a
- From Discover: Some 13.8 billion years ago, our universe burst into being. In a fraction of a second, it ballooned from subatomic to the size of a grapefruit. And as the cosmos grew and grew, it also cooled, until the building blocks of matter —
- From Innovation News Network: NASA has created the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), bringing together teams of researchers who are interested in the Moon, asteroids and the moons of Mars, airless bodies in Earth’s
- 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
- 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
- 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