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  • NASA Asthros stratospheric balloon to study newly formed stars

    NASA will deploy a huge stratospheric balloon to study newborn stars

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    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    07.24.2020

    NASA plans to send an 8.4 foot telescope into the upper stratosphere aboard a “football stadium” sized balloon. ASTHROS (astrophysics stratospheric telescope for high spectral resolution observerations at submillimeter-wavelengths) will study the gases around newly-formed giant stars by observing the far-infrared light they emit.