Mar. 31, 2016

The SOFIA science team has published a new map of the horsehead Nebula (IC 434), an interstellar cloud in Orion. The data in the spectroscopic line of ionized carbon (C+) resp. [CII] were observed with the upGREAT instrument onboard SOFIA which was built by MPIfR/Bonn and KOSMA/University of Cologne under the leadership of Rolf Güsten/MPIfR.