University of Stuttgart / German SOFIA Institute / Observatory Operations SOFIA / SETI Institute / NASA’s Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility / NASA’s Ames Research Center / Palmdale airport / /
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planetary systems / aerospace / energy / /
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SOFIA Science Center / SOFIA’s mission / Universities Space Research Association / SETI Institute / German SOFIA Institute / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / German Aerospace Center / Cornell University / Astronomical Society of the Pacific / /
EXPLORING THE INFRARED UNIVERSE SOFIA’s Mission Many objects of interest to astronomers emit most of their energy in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Ground-based telescopes, however, can detect o