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GUSTO telescope to launch on a balloon! This NASA mission will map space between stars in Milky Way Galaxy
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GUSTO telescope to launch on a balloon! This NASA mission will map space between stars in Milky Way Galaxy

[ad_1] NASA never fails to amaze with its groundbreaking projects. Currently, NASA scientists and Engineers are gearing up for an extraordinary NASA experiment named GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory) in Antarctica. According to NASA, this innovative project involves a balloon-borne telescope set to launch "no earlier than December 21” as per NASA. Yes, you read that right, it is a balloon-borne telescope. While it will be no match for the James Webb Space Telescope, It will still be a big cog in the gargantuan NASA machine consisting of land, air and space telescopes. It will launch from the Ross Ice Shelf, near the U.S. National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station research base.Mapping the Milky Way with GUSTOAs explained by NASA, GUSTO's primary ...