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NASA may build giant telescopes on the moon in your lifetime. Check out the blueprints.

An illustration of a conceptual radio telescope within a crater on the moon.

From Business Insider: Gazing at the moon, you may see a face or a round of cheese, but some astronomers see the ideal spot for their next giant telescope.

They're already drafting blueprints and making proposals — some with cash from an interested NASA.

One moonshot plan would build a giant radio dish spanning an entire crater on the far side of the moon.

Another involves a giant triangle of lasers to detect ripples in space-time and trace them to distant collisions of black holes and massive dead stars.