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What kind of science can we do with telescopes on the Moon? Giant radio dishes in craters, gravitational wave detectors, UV-interferometers and much more. How Starship will completely change this field and enable new opportunities.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Martin Elvis

https://cfa.harvard.edu/people/martin-elvis

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• 00:00:00 Intro

• 00:02:11 Why put telescopes on the Moon

• 00:10:00 Unique things for the Moon

• 00:18:01 What a telescope should look like

• 00:27:31 Gravitational waves observatory

• 00:37:12 History of the Moon

• 00:41:00 What's next

• 00:49:43 How Starship will change the game

• 00:54:29 Current obsessions

• 01:02:37 Final thoughts

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