Riding stratospheric air currents 120,000 feet above the Antarctic continent and collecting far infrared radio emissions from the matter between stars, the GUSTO balloon mission has broken the record as NASA’s longest-flying heavy-lift balloon mission. The previous record stood at 55 days, 1 hour and 34 minutes.
As the sun set over the Sonoran Desert, the animals came out to play. The deer grazing among the saguaro were probably mule but could have been white-tailed it was tough to say at dusk with only mini red-light flashlights in hand instead of binoculars. The bird that perched on a tree branch for a few seconds before flying away had the distinctive silhouette of an owl.
Taiwan's leading astronomy institute joins Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea and the United States in building one of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes.
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