here on why did it feel like when you got on the saffir. you know honestly good question it was very exciting we had to put on headphones because it's very loud on board it's not soundproofed in that we were pretty excited i have to say. zofia aircraft was fitted with an infrared telescope it can observe the birth of stars and galaxies from high above the earth's atmosphere which normally interferes with our view the telescope was extended out of an opening on the side of the aircraft. to publicize its research and get young people interested in its work nasa sometimes takes teachers on board. and did you see if a new star has just been formed but has flown as wrong as can't actually observe a star being born it's not like there's a bang and suddenly there's a star it takes hundreds of thousands of years before you can see anything but i could see a lot of stars a different stages in their development and i could compare them and say aha after twenty thousand years that's what a star looks like after one hundred thousand years like that and