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Ep. 604: Balloon Astronomy

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The Sub Millimeter Telescope - The One That Dangled From a Crane

We will continue this conversation in a but it's time for another break. So when last we saw our heroes, they were talking about a balloon base observatories and some of the interesting missions. Now, i mean, imagine a tele cope that you lose after the third flight, and imagine the trials and tribulations of taking this thing. One from antarctic or the arcthisthis. This was a two meter mirror sub millimeter telescope. It helped us see just where are the star bursting galaxies in our universe. We now understand well just what our own galaxy is changing the brightness of out in the distance.

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