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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait for NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope
The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...
NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang
Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...
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This New NASA Telescope Will Map The Universe in 102 Colors of Light. Here’s Why it’s a Big Deal
The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.
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New NASA telescope SPHEREx is tasked with mapping the entire cosmos
This month, a new kind of space telescope is setting out on a ... While it doesn't observe as much of the infrared as the Webb telescope, SPHEREx can detect 102 distinct wavelengths across the ...
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic ‘inflation’
The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an exotic, unfathomably rapid expansion, but scientists ...