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NASA’s GUSTO balloon telescope will map part of the Milky Way

NASA is getting ready to start an experiment named GUSTO — quick for Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory — to assemble information that will be used to create a 3D map of a portion of the Milky Way Galaxy. The GUSTO experiment entails a telescope that will float 120,000 ft over Antarctica on a high-altitude balloon for not…