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Sofia, the Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time

Sofia, the Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time

[html]Astronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes can’t.[/html]

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