--- title: Thermodynamic Computing Slashes AI Image Energy Use description: LuSEE-Night, a radio telescope designed to detect signals from the cosmic dark ages, is scheduled to launch to the moon's far side in early 2026. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/thermodynamic-computing-slashes-ai-image-energy-use-phikdpyia twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Thermodynamic Computing Slashes AI Image Energy Use | daily.dev og:description: LuSEE-Night, a radio telescope designed to detect signals from the cosmic dark ages, is scheduled to launch to the moon's far side in early 2026. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/thermodynamic-computing-slashes-ai-image-energy-use-phikdpyia og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/phiKdpyIa.png og:image:alt: Thermodynamic Computing Slashes AI Image Energy Use og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Thermodynamic Computing Slashes AI Image Energy Use **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary LuSEE-Night, a radio telescope designed to detect signals from the cosmic dark ages, is scheduled to launch to the moon's far side in early 2026. The instrument will listen for faint radio signals from neutral hydrogen formed 380,000 years after the big bang, frequencies blocked by Earth's ionosphere and drowned out by terrestrial interference. Positioned on the lunar far side during the two-week night, the telescope will operate in near-total electromagnetic silence, shielded from both Earth and solar wind. The mission represents four decades of advocacy by astrophysicist Jack Burns and colleagues, who have persistently pushed for lunar-based radio astronomy despite technical challenges, political shifts, and budget constraints. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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