A pioneering NASA 747 aircraft outfitted with a big telescope ... The new research was recently published in the Planetary Science Journal. SOFIA's 747 carried a formidable 8.8-foot-wide (2.7 ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

NASA operates a variety of aircraft for transport, training, and scientific missions, including the iconic Boeing 747SP SOFIA and the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy is ...

Jason Rhodes, a cosmologist at NASA JPL and also ... able to compete with SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), actually a modified flying Boeing 747, which he says can have ...

This "unambiguous detection of molecular water" will boost Nasa's hopes of establishing ... telescope known as Sofia. This observatory, on board a modified Boeing 747, flies above much of Earth's ...

A large asteroid as wide as the wingspan of a Boeing 747 passed by the Earth recently – and scientists didn't even see it coming. Dubbed 2021 SG, according to the NASA-backed International ...

Employed by the SETI Institute as director of education and public outreach for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at NASA-Ames from 2003 to 2016. Has taught courses on ...

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