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NASA will send a balloon the size of a soccer field to study the stars

The space agency’s ASTHROS mission will depart Antarctica in December 2023 and spend three weeks in the stratosphere, the section of the atmosphere where the ozone layer is located. Its components include a soccer field-sized balloon and a specialized far-infrared telescope designed to capture light that the human eye cannot …

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