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Rocket team to discern if our star count should go way up – Phys.org
The universe contains a mind-boggling number of stars—but scientists’ best estimates may be an undercount. A NASA-funded sounding rocket is launching with an improved…
The universe contains a mind-boggling number of starsbut scientists’ best estimates may be an undercount. A NASA-funded sounding rocket is launching with an improved instrument to look for evidence of extra stars that may have been missed in stellar head counts.
The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment-2, or CIBER-2, mission is the latest in a series of sounding rocket launches that began in 2009. Led by Michael Zemcov, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the Rochester Institute of…
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