Space is a constant reminder of how little we truly know about our universe. A new international project is hoping to help make a little more sense of things. Next year, researchers from 13 countries will launch a balloon to, hopefully, find high-energy particles that couldn’t have come from Earth.
Known as the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon or EUSO-SPB2, the project will allow researchers to monitor the area around the Southern Hemisphere. Through the use of two different telescopes, researchers hope to learn more about “cosmic rays of very high to ultrahigh energies and pioneer the search for cosmogenic tau neutrinos from space.”
