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November 9, 2011 12:42 pm PST
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A ride on NASA's flying telescope
SOPHIA—the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy—is a telescope unlike any other. It's not mounted to the Earth's surface. And it's not floating in space. Instead, SOPHIA travels the skies, rigged up to a dedicated 747 flying at 40,000 feet. The idea is to have a telescope that gets a better view than the ones on [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XMIiQc6uJrE/a-ride-on-nasas-flying-telescope.html
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