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Fireball - The Building Block of Everything

Erica Hamden: Fireball is designed to observe some of the faintest structures known. The telescope hangs on a cable from a giant balloon and observes for one night only from 130,000 feet in the stratosphere at the very edge of space. "I want to know how that hydrogen gas gets into a galaxy and creates a star," she says.

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