HYDE PARK — A University of Chicago professor is one of the leaders of a NASA project that launched a “Super Pressure” balloon this week in search of what she says is “the most energetic cosmic particles that we’ve ever observed.” The balloon,reportedly “stadium-sized” when fully inflated, features a telescope that will grasp 400000 images a moment using an ultraviolet camera that scientists at the U of C and around the world will use to study the cosmic rays. Click […]
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