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NASA`s High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera Plus HAWC+ #128880791
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The High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera, or HAWC+, will fly aboard the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy SOFIA. HAWC+ is a far-infrared camera and imaging polarimeter. This is the only currently operating astronomical camera that makes images using far-infrared light, allowing studies of low-temperature early stages of star and planet formation.
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