00:03from exoplanet discoveries to the first image of the black hole astronomers have really outdone
00:09themselves these past years which goes hand-in-hand with telescopes getting more powerful but it takes
00:15a little creativity to keep pushing boundaries ifl science reports astronomers are now proposing we
00:20should build a liquid mirror telescope on the moon a team from the University of Texas at Austin say
00:27they want to build an untimely large telescope which would have a primary mirror that's 330 feet
00:33across bigger than any other telescope in the works to reach this size and the correct shape
00:39the mirror would have to be made of a constantly spinning reflective liquid it sounds crazy to
00:44build it on the moon but without the effects of Earth's atmosphere this would give the telescope
00:48unmatched clarity this was first proposed by a University of Arizona team back in 2008 with
00:54the lunar liquid mirror telescope and updated calculations published in the astrophysical
01:00journal suggest it could even detect the universe's very first stars
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