SOFIA Science Center

Funding Available for Archival Research: SOFIA is pleased to invite proposals for SOFIA Archival Research Programs (SARP), aimed at encouraging the use of SOFIA archival observations for impactful science. This program will fund archival research projects primarily using SOFIA data to encourage the use of available SOFIA archival data in the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA). Proposals are due February 12, 2021. Learn more here.

Magnetic ‘Highway’ Channels Material Out of Cigar Galaxy

Magnetic Chaos Hidden Within the Whirlpool Galaxy

Occultation Confirms Haze in Pluto’s Atmosphere

Cold Quasars and the Evolution of Galaxies

The Optical Depth of [CII]: the Implications for Galaxies both Near and Far

Molecular Processing in the Disks of Massive Stars

A Magnetic Hourglass Detection for a Low-Mass Protostar

Magnetized Filamentary Gas Flows in Serpens South

SOFIA Reveals the Complex Nature of a 'Simple' Star Formation Tracer

Magnetic Fields Force New Perspective on the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy

SOFIA Reveals New View of Milky Way’s Center

Planetary Collisions in a Binary Star System

Magnetic Field May Be Keeping Milky Way’s Black Hole Quiet

SOFIA Observations Fuel Debate about the Origin of the Earth’s Oceans

First Astrophysical Detection of a Very Special Molecule

The Cosmic Fireworks of Massive Star Formation

Weighing Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies

SOFIA Uncovers Clues to the Evolution of Universe and Search for Life

SOFIA Finds Dust Survives Obliteration in Supernova 1987A

Lifting the Veil on Star Formation in the Orion Nebula

NASA’s SOFIA Observatory Captures Orion’s Dragon in 3-D

Cosmic Collisions: Unraveling the Mysterious Formation of Star Clusters

Magnetic Fields Confine the Torus at the Core of Cygnus A

SOFIA is an 80/20 partnership of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), consisting of an extensively modified Boeing 747SP aircraft carrying a 2.7-meter (106 inch) reflecting telescope (with an effective diameter of 2.5 meters or 100 inches). The aircraft is based at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, Calif. The SOFIA Program Office is at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., which manages SOFIA's science and mission operations in cooperation with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA; Columbia, Md.) and the German SOFIA Institute (DSI; University of Stuttgart).