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ASTHROS Mission: NASA to study light from newborn stars with giant balloon – techtoday19
ASTHROS Mission: NASA to study light from newborn stars with giant balloon NASA engineers are working on an ambitious new mission that will carry a cutting-edge, 2.5 metre telescope high into the stratosphere on a football stadium-sized balloon. NASA announce…
NASA engineers are working on an ambitious new mission that will carry a cutting-edge, 2.5 metre telescope high into the stratosphere on a football stadium-sized balloon.
NASA announced on Wednesday it had begun a new mission to hoist a telescope 130,000 feet into the air, where it can peer into space without worrying about the distorting effects of the thicker atmosphere below.
The telescope is called the Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submil…
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