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nasa's stratospheric observatory for

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infrared astronomy or sophia completed

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its first science flight on wednesday

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december 1st demonstrating the airborne

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observatory's ability to make

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observations not possible from

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ground-based telescopes the flight was

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the first of six planned over the coming

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months during the observatory's short

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so

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nothing across

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and this is the region we're talking

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about the pah

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observations we're going to take are

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here of the the photoionizing

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observations are here and we're going to

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look at them a variety of wavelengths

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and then model those the emission we get

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from the variety of wavelengths is

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probably going to be this source

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well unless of course the nature of

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flight plans are that you can't it's not

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because it's coming along for the ride

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but the the dominating thing is

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let's get the let's get as deep as we

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can at the longer wavelengths so that's

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by this mission has a spectral energy

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which is very flat but once it got hit

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by the impactor then you you see all

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two

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this one

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so

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this milestone represents the completion

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of a significant amount of work that's

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been done really over a period of a

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decade with wind tunnel testing

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structural analysis and the flight test

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that was done

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on the airplane more recently and we

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basically demonstrated that the airplane

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flies just like a standard 747 and it's

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now ready to go started science mission

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we'll be looking at nearby objects in

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our own solar system like comets and

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other planets like jupiter to better

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understand the development of earth

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and we'll be looking at star forming

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regions in our galaxy to better

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understand the fundamental building

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blocks of life itself

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sofia

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provides this great collaboration

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between

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nasa and the german space agency dlr

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where both agencies got together

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and nasa provided the platform this

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aircraft

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boeing 747 and the german space agency

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provided this two and a half meter

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telescope the combination of which is