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Enormous balloon offers new frontier for space telescopes

massive balloon could help astronomers get crystal-clear shots of space for a fraction of the cost of an orbital telescope like Hubble. The secret weapon behind the SuperBIT project is a simple helium balloon – albeit one that floats up to 40km

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