The balloon telescope took its first photo of space.

May 7, 2023

The story of SuperBIT is like a joke that came true. NASA decided to reduce the cost of launching space telescopes by mounting them on balloons. To do this, built a huge ball the size of a football field. And it really works - the telescope successfully took the first photo. This is the Tarantula Nebula, and not much worse than the more expensive Hubble Space Telescope.