NASA’s airborne infrared telescope, SOFIA, has been granted a stay of execution following a review that had threatened to cancel it entirely. But NASA is still not committed to finishing the ...

Once airborne, this door at the back of the fuselage opens for an unobstructed line of sight. NASA's Boeing 747SP flying observatory nicknamed "SOFIA." Christoph Schmidt/picture alliance/Getty ...

Airborne reports that the telescope’s design is so novel that the Simons Observatory located in Northern Chile simultaneously ordered a telescope using the same basic design for its large aperture ...

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, which carried a 2.5-meter telescope aboard a modified Boeing 747SP airplane, has made its final flight.

B ack in March, we reported the dismantling of NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) at the NASA Ames Research Center, marking the end of an era for this pioneering infrared telescope platform ...

NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Unlock Secrets of the Cosmos Date: December 22, 2009 Source: NASA Summary: ...

Airborne telescope will unlock secrets of the cosmos The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy jet flew for two minutes with the telescope's doors fully opened.Provided by NASA ...

The airborne infrared telescope was pointed towards “V1047 Cen”, a white dwarf and its Sun-like companion that erupted as a classical nova back in 2005 (Nova Centauri 2005). In April 2019, this ...

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Airborne telescope captures lunar shadow during N.B. eclipse. Monday's total solar eclipse may be over, but the excitement continues for a retired scientist who captured the rare event with a ...

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has helped astronomers discover what is believed to be a new kind of exploding star, something distinctly different to regular nova and ...