Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time
Oct 07, 2022•12 min
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Episode description
Astronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes can’t.
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