Sofia Airborne Observatory In Flight #4 is a photograph by Detlev Van Ravenswaay which was uploaded on May 10th, 2013.
Sofia Airborne Observatory In Flight #4
SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft flying at sunset. The Milky Way is in the background. SOFIA is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared... more
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Sofia Airborne Observatory In Flight #4
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Detlev Van Ravenswaay
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SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft flying at sunset. The Milky Way is in the background. SOFIA is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. It is a 2.5-metre infrared telescope that is flown in its 747SP aircraft to the stratosphere, some 10-50 kilometres above sea level. This allows the detection of infrared light that is normally blocked by water vapour lower in the atmosphere. Here, the observation door in the fuselage is open and observations are being obtained. SOFIA was jointly developed from 1996 by NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The first observations took place in May 2010.
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May 10th, 2013
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