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.”