A British team have helped capture jaw-dropping space pictures - using a balloon the size of a football stadium. Durham University astronomers are part of an international team behind the successful first research flight of an innovative balloon-borne telescope.
The Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) has been flown to the edge of space. First images from the project include two large galaxies colliding 60 million light-years away.
NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program successfully launched a heavy-lift super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wānaka Airport, New Zealand, last weekend. Images from the mission, which is planned for at least a hundred days, are being captured on a balloon-borne telescope floating at 108,000 feet above Earth’s surface.
