The world's highest mobile observatory

Night flights will help the aerial observatory scour the sky to find new stars, in an effort to detect extraterrestrial life.

A group of American experts, including two from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, will use the aerial observatory with the aim of tracing a set of molecules in dust clouds around the 5 young stars. .

SOFIA is set to hope to decipher the mystery
of life originating in the universe - (Photo: NASA)

That mission will be deployed on a Boeing 747, equipped with the stratospheric Infrared Astronomical Observatory (SOFIA), in cooperation with NASA and the German Space Center.

Moving above 12,000m, this is the world's largest aerial observatory, according to Space.com.

The infrared observations of terrestrial observatories of newborn stars have shown the presence of organic molecules and water in the remnant dust of the surrounding gas cloud.

Because the observatory of the ground observatory is affected because the air humidity absorbs most infrared radiation, experts think of installing an aerial observatory to avoid this disadvantage. .