2022 July 29 - SOFIA's Southern Lights
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2022-07-29

In today's image, we see the aurora - in this case the Southern Lights from the SOFIA aircraft. SOFIA flies in the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere where it is above most of the atmosphere allowing it to observe infrared light from the universe. 

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