NASA Boeing 747SP Airborne Telescope to Stop Flying This Year

Telescopes come in all shapes and sizes, depending on use, and can be placed anywhere, from facilities down here on Earth to floating free, millions of miles away from our planet. But if they’re truly special, telescopes can also be airborne, carried around in converted passenger airliners. That’s exactly what the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA for short, is: a (continue reading...)