NASA's SOFIA will likely help solve mysteries about our galaxy
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 19:21
in Astronomy & Space
How were millions of young stars able to form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy in the presence of an enormous black hole with a mass 4 million times that of the sun? This and other important questions may be answered by the NASA mission SOFIA, which is scheduled to make its first scientific measurements in the next few months.