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Illustration depicting water molecules trapped in lunar soil, along with SOFIA onboard a modified Boeing 747SP jetliner. Image Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutterit The Moon is generally thought of as a very dry place, with no surface water or even water vapor clouds. Nothing but arid, dusty regolith and rocks. That’s true for the most part, […] 
NASA’s airborne observatory, SOFIA, was in the right place at the right time on July 10 to study the environment around a distant Kuiper Belt object, 2014 MU69, which is the next flyby target for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Photo Credit: NASA July 14, 2015, marks the first day where humanity completed the […] 
From NASA: “Image is an artist’s conception of the Pluto occultation seen close-up, not a photo.” NASA’s SOFIA jetliner recently observed Pluto during an occultation event, prior to New Horizons’ historic flyby. Image Credit: NASA In a year brimming with ongoing discoveries about distant, unknown worlds, including the Solar System’s planets and a […] 
New color images of Pluto sent back by New Horizons showing two different “faces” or hemispheres of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute First there were the unusual bright spots on Ceres, which are still awaiting an explanation, and now as […] Figures 1a and 1b show the G35 protostar at wavelengths of 31 and 37 microns taken by the FORCAST instrument on the SOFIA observatory’s infrared telescope in 2011. (Zhang et al. 2013, Astrophysical Journal) WASHINGTON — Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images […] SOFIA at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Photo Credit: NASA MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Twenty-six educators from the United States have been selected for research flights aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA. As participants in the Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program, the educators will partner with professional astronomers using […] W3 Star-Forming Region. Photo Credits: SOFIA Image – NASA/DLR/USRA/DSI/FORCAST Team; Spitzer Image – NASA/Caltech JPL PALMDALE, Calif. — NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) researchers have captured new images of a recently born cluster of massive stars named W3A. […] |
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