A NASA telescope aboard a high-altitude balloon will float over the South Pole to study a 'star-killer'

By flying on a high-altitude balloon, ASTHROS will be able to see things space telescopes cannot.

The James Webb Space Telescope may be getting most of the attention this summer, but next year, keep an eye out for NASA's Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths instrument.

ASTHROS is not a space telescope or a ground-based telescope but something in between, hovering in the stratosphere. NASA intends to fly the instrument to an altitude of 130,000 feet via a balloon larger than a football field, deploying it over Antarctica for a period of up to four weeks.

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