We’re all pretty familiar with spacecraft like the Hubble telescope giving us lovely glimpses of distant stars, but you don’t have to strap a telescope to a rocket in order to put it in the right position to capture far-off objects in space.
In a new project from Washington University, researchers have sent a helium balloon high above Antarctica that is equipped with a powerful telescope. The telescope, called X-Calibur, slowly traveled up to an incredible height of 130,000 feet, which just happens to be a great place to peer deep into the heavens.
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Scientists just launched a balloon in Antarctica that will study distant stars originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 13:18:59 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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