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SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) with telescope postition to the rear model prepares for...
SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) with telescope postition to the rear model prepares for...
SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) with telescope postition to the rear model prepares for...
In this composite image of the Omega Nebula, SOFIA detected the blue areas (20 microns) near the center, revealing...
SCI2012_0003: SOFIA mid-infrared image of the planetary nebula Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9), also known as the Butterfly...
Provided as a media resource, this reel includes the following without narration: * SOFIA aircraft operations,...
A composite image of the Cigar Galaxy (also called M82), a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the...
Scientists using NASA’s telescope on an airplane, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, discovered...
SOFIA’s 9-foot mirror is lowered into the cavity and attached to a structure sitting on a thin layer of oil for...
SOFIA's primary mirror assembly rests in its transportation cradle prior to reinstallation in NASA's airborne...
Engineers and technicians prepare SOFIA's German-built primary mirror assembly for reinstallation into NASA's 747SP...
This artist's concept illustrates how the brightness of outbursting star FU Orionis has been slowly fading since its...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At...
NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory is shadowed by a NASA F/A-18 safety chase aircraft during its second checkout...
With landing gear extended, the NASA/DLR Stratospheric Observatory for Infared Astronomy (SOFIA) 747SP cruises over...
NASA's SOFIA flying observatory makes a low pass over NASA Ames Research Center prior to landing at Moffett Field...
Erik Lindbergh, grandson of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, yanks the bunting to reveal the Clipper Lindbergh name...
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy touches down at Moffett Field, Calif., for its first visit...
NASA's new SOFIA observatory shared the ramp with its predecessor, the now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory,...
NASA's highly modified Boeing 747SP SOFIA observatory banks low over the Texas countryside as it heads for landing...
Erik Lindbergh, grandson of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, rededicated the SOFIA Boeing 747SP as the Clipper...
NASA's SOFIA infrared observatory 747SP is shadowed by a NASA F/A-18 during a flyby at its new home, the Dryden...
Erik Lindbergh, grandson of aviator Charles Lindbergh, unveiled a plaque commemorating his grandfather on the 80th...
Two large science aircraft, a DC-8 flying laboratory and the SOFIA 747SP, are based at NASA's Dryden Aircraft...