The moon is a great target for stargazers just starting out. But there are some tricks to observing the moon with a telescope or binoculars. Here's some tips to start moongazing with a telescope.

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Many times! There is currently a small UV-sensitive telescope on the Moon, which landed there in 2013 as part of the Chinese lander Chang’e 3, and it has taken some interesting images from the ...

"Visual telescopes would also benefit from the lack of an atmosphere on the Moon," said Avi Loeb, the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011-2020).

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The Moon also offers opportunities for other types of astronomy as well. Astronomers have lots of experience with optical and infrared telescopes operating in free space, such as the Hubble ...

But while the proof-of-concept UV scope accomplished its modest goals, it would take another 41 years to send another telescope to the Moon. China’s lunar telescopes.

Update for 10:40 a.m. ET Dec. 20: I originally wrote that ILO-X would be the first telescope on the moon, but it's been pointed out that the Apollo 16 mission carried an instrument known as the ...

A radio telescope built by robots in a crater on the far side of the moon could reveal the mysteries surrounding the beginning of the universe. The mission is a concept for now, but the project ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

The moon telescope would be unusual, breaking from the use of solid mirrors like we see with James Webb. "The telescope's mirror would be a spinning vat of liquid, topped by a metallic -- and thus ...