Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Putting a Telescope on the Moon?! | Discovery Files KIDS

Putting a Telescope on the Moon?! | Discovery Files KIDS

What are the benefits of putting a telescope on the moon? How could we do it? How would it all work?

Dr. Joe Pesce is a Program Director at the NSF, Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Division of Astronomical Sciences. An Astrophysicist with 30 years of experience, his primary areas of interest is in the external environments of galaxies hosting super massive black holes (Active Galactic Nuclei—AGN—in particular blazars); formation and evolution of AGN and galaxies; intergalactic medium in clusters of galaxies; imaging and spectroscopy of AGN (optical, IR, UV, X-ray); multiwavelength (radio to gamma) monitoring studies of blazars; cool stars and stellar atmospheres (AGB stars, supernovae progenitors).


Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Duration: 2 minutes, 28 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 21, 2022


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