system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is it possible to deploy a James Webb like telescope in the orbit of the moon to gain a new perspective for observing the universe?

Will it help or will the images generated from that telescope just be identical to the ones we have now? 

Additionally, can we install satellite  dishes on the surface of the moon (relatively small ones that can be deployed remotely with the spacecrafts we have today) so we can use Moon as an additional satellite or maybe even transmit signals to other stars?
gpt
It wouldn't be a good idea to put something like JWST around the Moon. As an infrared telescope, it's very important to keep JWST both cold and stable. That's why it's out at L2, orbiting the Sun far enough away to keep the Moon, Earth, and the Sun on the other side of the sunshield from its science instruments all the time. If it were orbiting the Moon, then about half the time the Sun would be on one side of the observatory, and the Earth on the other, making it catch a lot of the energy being both emitted and reflected by Earth. That's terrible for the thermal stability of the observatory when it's trying to see what is effectively heat from distant objects. 

For an optical/UV telescope like Hubble, it doesn't matter so much, so it would be ok in an orbit around the Moon - except it would *also* be ok in an orbit around Earth, and LEO is much cheaper and doesn't really carry any disadvantages compared to a Lunar orbit. 

It is maybe possible to build a *large* telescope on the lunar surface, larger than you could conceivably launch, and still gain the advantages of being outside an atmosphere. There are some proposals out there fleshing this idea out, even an idea to turn a crater into a giant radio telescope, but nothing has real funding.