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The next decades for astronomy from the Moon

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The far side of the Moon offers unique advantages for science. A meeting at the Royal Society in London brought together planetary scientists, astronomers, astrophysicists and other stakeholders to discuss the future of astronomy from the Moon.

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Fig. 1: The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT).

2020 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology/Government sponsorship acknowledged.

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  1. Institut d’Astrophysique, Paris, France

    Joseph Silk

  2. Department of Physics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Joseph Silk

  3. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Joseph Silk

  4. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK

    Ian Crawford

  5. Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, London, UK

    Ian Crawford

  6. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Martin Elvis

  7. School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    John Zarnecki

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Silk, J., Crawford, I., Elvis, M. et al. The next decades for astronomy from the Moon. Nat Astron 7, 648–650 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-023-02000-1

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