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The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW)

The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW)
The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW) This illustration depicts the Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths, or GO-LoW, a concept presented at the 2025 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium. The proposed space-based radio observatory would use thousands of small satellites working together as a single, powerful telescope to detect radio waves too long to observe from Earth’s surface, revealing magnetic fields around distant exoplanets and opening a new window on the early universe. Mary Knapp