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[NIAC 2023] Observe the Universe from Deep Space

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Niaq: A Spacecraft With a 20 Kilogram Payload

Niaq's original plan was to chase down a moo moo grab a sample, bring it home so scientists can study the formation of an entirely different star system. But we ran into a few astrophysicists who had some really cool ideas along with some of their colleagues. And one of them said, let's, what about a telescope? Can you bring a telescope with you? It would be more than 20 kilograms and 100 kilometers per second adult of V. So there's these incredibly dark objects that it's even if you had the biggest lens in the, you know, ever built near Earth, there's just a lot of this noise and light pollution from the ecl

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