SOFIA Observatory Completes First Science Flight
December 3, 2010
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (or SOFIA) completed its first science flight on Dec. 1, demonstrating the airborne observatory’s ability to make observations not possible from ground-based telescopes. credit: NASA
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