Focus on SOFIA: HAWC+
HAWC+ is a unique instrument: besides capturing high-resolution images in far-infrared light, it can also map out invisible celestial magnetic fields.
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Focus on SOFIA: EXES
With EXES, a mid-infrared spectrograph, scientists have studied sources like young, hot stars and the icy Jovian moon Europa.
Focus on SOFIA: FIFI-LS
Science with FIFI-LS, a far-infrared imaging spectrograph, spans everything from star formation in the nearby M51 to jet activity in a distant active galaxy.
My GREAT Experience with SOFIA: Part 2
It was 6 pm and I was boarding a plane for a 10-hour flight — but there were plenty of signs that this wasn’t your typical redeye.
My GREAT Experience with SOFIA: Part 1
What’s more exciting than jetting through the stratosphere over the Pacific Ocean? Doing so with an opening the size of a garage door gaping in the side of your airplane — while observing the universe!
Nine Years of Energetic Atoms from IBEX
How has the flux of energetic neutral atoms changed in the past decade?
Two More Explanations for Interstellar Asteroid ‘Oumuamua
More than a year has passed since the discovery of interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua, but we’re still exploring new scenarios to explain its odd behavior.
A Link Between Fast Radio Bursts, Magnetars, and Supernovae?
A new study of an unusually bright supernova may have found the key to understanding what causes mysterious fast radio bursts.
Mapping Clouds on a Distant World
Hubble observations shed some light on the clouds of a nearby, planetary-mass object.
Prepping for Even Bigger Data in the Era of Interferometry
Radio interferometers are churning out data faster than ever before. How can astronomers keep up?