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Grounded: The director of the SOFIA flying observatory looks back

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Is There Any Greatest Hits From Sophia Data?

Sophia is the only foreign observatory in the world at the moment. Margaret, do you have any idea how many papers have been published that have been based on at least in part Sophia data? It's I'm going to give you a round number around 300. That's impressive. So we really started taking lots of science data in 2014. The first ever detection of helium hydride was very exciting. Their strongest transitions are in the foreign for ebb. And so it's the ideal wavelength to look for them. They found it in a planetary nebula. Because it gives you an insight into the chemical reaction rates that create it and helps put constraints on theoretical modeling.

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