March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
...-infrared camera and imaging polarimeter) in front of the SOFIA aircraft in the hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center... demonstrates that these far infrared polarisation observations from SOFIA provide a powerful tool to study the magnetic ...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... Camera (HAWC+) is a far-IR polarimeter that astronomers use to probe astronomical magnetic fields. The polarised signal measured by SOFIA/HAWC+ can be used to chart the shape and determine the strength of magnetic fields on the critical subparsec...
26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
... with a 2.7-metre reflecting telescope; the NASA/DLR Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). As its name suggests SOFIA is able to detect emission in the infrared and by examining a different band of radiation, a team of researchers...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... most prominent cooperative projects is the NASA airborne observatory SOFIA. In this joint venture Germany supplied the telescope and...both with the goal of searching for exoplanets. The SOFIA airborne observatory operated by NASA and DLR is based at...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... typically be only half as distant as a similar-sized sample of Sun-like stars. Any signals will be stronger. NASA’s SOFIA) recently confirmed that the Epsilon Eridani system (10.5 light years away) has an architecture remarkably similar to that...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... the deputy director of the Arecibo Observatory (2015-18) and the Associate Director for Science & Public Outreach at SOFIA (2018-19). She was a programme officer for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences (2013-15) and...
