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NASA has picked a new telescope that will help study the Milky Way, shedding new light on how stars are born and die and what chemical elements formed the galaxy.
The agency announced late Monday it selected the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) to examine the galaxy.
The mission, which is projected to cost around $145 million, should launch in 2025, NASA said in a statement.
NASA has picked a new telescope that will help study the Milky Way, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (pictured)
It will study gamma rays from radioactive atoms produced when stars explode to determine where chemical elements were formed in the Milky Way
COSI will study the gamma rays from radioactive atoms that are produced when stars explode to help figure out where chemical elements were formed in the galaxy.
In addition, COSI will also shed new light into positrons, a subatomic particle that has the same mass as an electron but it has a positive charge.
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