Up All Night with SOFIA, NASA’s Flying Telescope
SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. It’s a complete flying astronomical observation platform which carries a dozen or more astronomers, observers and crew far above the clouds to observe objects and phenomena too cold to be seen in visible light.
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