Episode 576: What Comes After LUVOIR? Three Extreme Ideas For Space Telescopes

While we’re all waiting for James Webb to launch - which it will - the Extremely Large Telescope to be constructed, and LUVOIR to get approved.

(Please get approved, please get approved.)

We’re going to need a way to pass the time. So let’s have our imaginations take flight, out into the Universe, and consider some of the most incredible ideas suggested for telescopes.

Unless you’ve been crawling through scientific journals like me, I guarantee you’ve never heard of any of them. But when I’m done, you’re going to want to fund all of them.

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References:
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1908/1908.02080.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05079
http://hypertelescope.org/project/hypertelescope-space/