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A RADIO TELESCOPE ON THE MOON’S FAR SIDE WILL PEER INTO THE UNIVERSE’S ‘DARK AGES’

A small radio telescope on the far side of the Moon could help scientists peer into the universe’s ancient past. The Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night) is a pathfinder being developed by the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, the Space Science Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

LuSEE-Night is scheduled to

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