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What New Science Would We Discover with a Moon Telescope?
Season 9
Episode 24
There’s nowhere on the earth, or even orbiting the Earth, that’s far enough to hear to the faint radio hum from the time before stars. In fact, we may need to build a giant radio telescope in the quietest place in the solar system—the far side of the moon.
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