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Ep. 604: Balloon Astronomy

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The Science of Astronomy

Every university at some point or another has launched a weather balloon with science instruments. The images that come from these where you do see that curvature of the earth, that dangling instrument hanging from what looks like a jelly fish. These are beautiful, elegant pieces of science hardware and its it's something that reminds you that there is a certain romance to science as we move into this high tech future. This episode was brought to you thanks to our generous patrons on patrion. If you want to help keep this show going, please consider joining our community at patrion dot com slash astronomy cast.

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