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SuperBIT instrument
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- The Super Pressure Balloon-Borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was flown to the edge of space by a helium-filled NASA scientific balloon.
- It was the first operational flight by the stratospheric observer.
- It took its first images on this flight, showing the “Tarantula Nebula” – a bright cluster of gas and dust in a galaxy neighbourhood near our Milky Way.
- It also, captured the collision between the two galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, known as “the Antennae.”
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