NASA’s Uses the Largest Airborne Telescope Observatory in the World
- By : PureAire Monitoring Systems
- Posted on : May 02, 2018
- News Room
NASA’s latest project, a joint collaboration with the German Aerospace Center, breaks new ground for scientific discoveries. The new Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (or SOFIA, as it’s known) makes use of a modified Boeing aircraft and a reflecting telescope to enable spatial observations far more detailed than anything a land-based telescope could see. Get […]