Check out one of SOFIA's most enchanting observation of the milky way's black hole! NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute tweeted on Friday, May 13, a throwback to SOFIA's observation that features a stunning fall of a seamlessly colorful swirl winding towards the Milky Way's black hole.
After 8 years of flying, SOFIA will finally hit the ground. NASA, together with its partners at the German Space Agency at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), has decided to halt the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) mission and finally set it on the ground after eight years.
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