NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP with the doors covering the aircraft’s German-built infrared astronomy telescope fully open. (NASA…
This mid-infrared image of the W40 star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy was captured recently by the FORCAST instrument…
This graphical representation from the SOFIA Science Center compares two infrared images of the heart of the Orion nebula captured…
This mid-infrared image of the W3A star cluster in the inset was captured by the FORCAST camera on the SOFIA…
SOFIA staff scientist James De Buizer (left) discusses an infrared image with Marita Beard of Branham High School in San…
NASA’s SOFIA telescope and the FORCAST instrument captured this color-composite image of the planetary nebula Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9) showing a…
Ground crewmen approach NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory shortly after the modified Boeing 747SP carrying a 100-inch telescope landed following an…
With the sliding door over its 17-ton infrared telescope wide open, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA…
Astronomers and mission operations staff monitor data at their consoles during a science flight aboard the SOFIA flying observatory. The…
SOFIA/FORCAST mid-infrared image of the Milky Way galaxy’s nucleus showing the Circumnuclear Ring (CNR) of gas and dust clouds orbiting…
