NASA Launches SPHEREx Space Telescope to Map the Entire Sky
NASA's SPHEREx telescope launched to explore galaxies and ingredients for life in the universe while tagging along four satellites to study the sun.
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.
SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California
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The $488 million SPHEREx observatory will survey the whole sky four times over its two-year mission.
After several delays, NASA's SPHEREx launches in mission to map 450 million galaxies
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Both groundbreaking missions promise to reveal previously unseen and unknown aspects of our solar system and galaxy.
NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
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NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
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Summary
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aimed at mapping the entire sky over a two-year mission. With a budget of $488 million, SPHEREx will explore hundreds of millions of galaxies and search for life’s ingredients in the Milky Way. Unlike other telescopes, SPHEREx will measure the cosmic glow of the universe in 102 colors through infrared observations, which are invisible to the human eye. Its findings may provide insight into galaxy formation, the evolution of the cosmos, and potentially how water and life could exist elsewhere in our galaxy.
Perspectives
NASA has launched the SPHEREx mission, which aims to map the entire sky and study the formation and evolution of galaxies over billions of years.
SPHEREx will also search for crucial ingredients for life, such as water, in the Milky Way's interstellar clouds, aiding in the understanding of how solar systems form.
Four suitcase-size satellites called PUNCH, launched in conjunction with SPHEREx, will study the sun's corona and solar wind to improve predictions of space weather.