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Brit scientists plan to send 'football-stadium sized balloon' to the very edge of space

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Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!The world's biggest balloon, which is about the size of a football stadium, will carry a wide field telescope to the very edge of space.The telescope, which will rival the famous US telescope Hubble, will operate at a fraction of the cost and will be named SuperBIT (Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope's).The incredible instrument will fly above 99.5 per cent of Earth's atmosphere next April with British scientists helping to make up the international team.The project will study dark matter, which makes up 4/5 of space, and map it with a technique called gravitational lensing.Professor Richard Massey, of Durham University, said: "Cavemen could smash rocks together, to see what.

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