Exhibition Gallery

The Eagle Nebula (M16) as seen by the SuperBIT telescope, while hanging from a stratospheric balloon at about 35 km altitude. The image combines 6 exposures from SuperBIT's test flight, taken with different colour filters over about 10 minutes.

Eagle Nebula

Steven Benton (postdoc) and the SuperBIT team

Department of Physics

The Eagle Nebula (M16) as seen by the SuperBIT telescope, while hanging from a stratospheric balloon at about 35 km altitude. The image combines 6 exposures from SuperBIT’s test flight, taken with different colour filters over about 10 minutes.