The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW)

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Artist’s depiction of The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW)

Mary Knapp

Mary Knapp
MIT

Humankind has never before seen the low frequency radio sky. It is hidden from ground-based telescopes by the Earth’s ionosphere and challenging to access from space with traditional missions because the long wavelengths involved (meter- to kilometer-scale)

require infeasibly massive telescopes to see clearly.