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Water Distribution Near Moon’s South Pole Mapped Using NASA SOFIA Data
Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the ...
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SOFIA Opens Its Door
SOFIA Opens Its Door In this video taken from NASAs F/A-18 chase plane, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), fully opens its telescopes door on a flight near Edwards ...
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Dana Backman
Professor of physics and astronomy for 12 years at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Employed by the SETI Institute as director of education and public outreach for NASA's ...
7 unseen images of Space captured by NASA
The ring-shaped clouds around the nebula RCW 120 were detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in this composite image. The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million ...
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Flying telescope yields insights into birth of stars
The US-German Sofia (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) observatory is based around a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft. While flying at altitudes of about 12km (41,000ft), a large ...
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Sofia Sheikh
Dr. Sofia Z. Sheikh is primarily a technosignature researcher, although she works on pulsars and radio frequency interference. She grew up in South Carolina, did her undergraduate work in physics and ...
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Profiles in Excellence: College of Engineering alumnus Bill Rose ’62 (civil engineering), ’65 M.S. (mechanical engineering)
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) enables researchers to study celestial phenomena above the interference of most of Earth’s atmosphere. To facilitate that research, a ...