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IMAGE: A SuperBIT optical and ultraviolet composite image of the Pillars of Creation , trunks of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years away in the direction of the. view more
Credit: SuperBIT team, from Romualdez et al. (2018) SPIE 10702.
Durham, Toronto and Princeton Universities have teamed up with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to build a new kind of astronomical telescope. SuperBIT flies above 99.5% of the Earth s atmosphere, carried by a helium balloon the size of a football stadium. The telescope will make its operational debut next April and when deployed should obtain high-resolution images rivalling those of the Hubble Space Telescope. Mohamed Shaaban, a PhD student at the University of Toronto, will describe SuperBIT in his talk today (Wednesday 21 July) at the online RAS National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2021).
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