* Astronomy

HEAT telescope heads to Antarctica's high country to observe star-making clouds

It is a place that scientists have dubbed "Ridge A." Its not far from the highest point on the polar plateau, a region called Dome A, which reaches a lung-laboring 4,100 meters in altitude. Ridge A is where Kulesa and his U.S. and Australian colleagues have located an autonomous, robotic observatory to study the interstellar clouds where stars are made
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