First Images Arrive From Flying IR Telescope
Credit: Nasa/Cornell university
With enough fresh shots of Orion for a couple of months of processing, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia) is proving to be as stable a platform for deep-space imaging in the infrared range as NASA hoped when it converted a Boeing 747SP into a flying telescope. Using a mid...
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