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Forty days and forty-five nights at space’s edge

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The SuperBIT telescope spent more than a month being carried through the stratosphere by a scientific balloon, imaging space from above 99.5% of the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Fig. 1: SuperBIT on the launch pad in Wanaka, New Zealand.

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    Richard Massey

  2. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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  3. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

    William C. Jones

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Massey, R., Netterfield, C.B. & Jones, W.C. Forty days and forty-five nights at space’s edge. Nat Astron 8, 264 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02202-1

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