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SOFIA
SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, was a joint NASA and German Aerospace Center (DLR) mission consisting of a 2.7-meter infrared telescope mounted in a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft. By flying at altitudes above 40,000 feet, SOFIA observed above approximately 99 percent of atmospheric water vapor that blocks infrared light from reaching ground-based telescopes. The obser...
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Uraniborg
Built between 1576 and 1580 on Hven, then under Danish control and now part of Sweden, Uraniborg was Tycho Brahe's Renaissance observatory and research complex. It predates the astronomical telescope. Instead, Brahe used large precision instruments to measure celestial positions with the naked eye, making carefully repeated observation central to his work.
The resulting measurements were among th...
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