[Interview] I'm Convinced. Let's Do Astronomy From the Moon

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 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/Cz511HLQynM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast