The world’s biggest balloon, the size of a football stadium, is to be sent to the edge of space. It will carry a wide field telescope that will rival Hubble, at a fraction of the cost, say British scientists behind the ambitious project. The instrument—named Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope, or SuperBIT—will fly above 99.
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