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Mike Wehner
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- A group of astronomers has been studying a 2008 proposal to build a telescope on the Moon.
- The telescope would be capable of peering back to the origins of the universe and could provide images of the first stars ever created.
- There are no guarantees that the telescope will be built, but it's not out of the question.
NASA does a lot of incredible things, with projects ranging from sending rovers to other planets to launching observatories into orbit around Earth, but not every proposal that NASA likes ends up becoming reality. In fact, many seemingly great ideas have to be set aside due to budget or technological constraints, and oftentimes those ideas are never revisited. For one long-mothballed project, that could change, as astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin found a decade-old concept for a Moon telescope that could ultimately see the light of day.
As the scientists will explain in a new paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, a proposal that was originally submitted to NASA back in 2008 for a "Lunar Liquid-Mirror Telescope" or LLMT, may ultimately solve some problems that astronomers are still struggling with today.
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