It could be said that the sky comes alive at night. From Earth’s surface, the brief absence of the Sun brings a spectacle of lights – stars, galaxies, nebulae and planets – a window into the Universe. Explorers have looked through this window for hundreds of years – first from the ground, and now through ever more powerful telescopes that work at the edge of space.

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will take the largest and most versatile airborne telescope built to date aboard a modified Boeing 747SP 45,000 feet above Earth’s surface to study space.

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