LuSEE-Night, a radio telescope launching to the moon's far side in early 2026, aims to detect signals from the cosmic dark ages—a period 200-400 million years after the big bang. The instrument will listen for faint radio emissions from neutral hydrogen at frequencies below 50 MHz, which are blocked by Earth's ionosphere and
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