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Fireball - The Building Block of Everything

Fireball is designed to observe some of the faintest structures known, huge clouds of hydrogen gas. It hangs on a cable from a giant balloon and observes for one night on from 100 n 30 thousand feet in the strato sphere,. This is partly because the edge of space is much cheaper than actual space. Observing at least some of those atoms is crucial to our understanding of why galaxies look the way they do.

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