No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how the Universe, and ultimately life, came to be.
NASA SPHEREx Telescope Is Launched to Study Universe's Origins
A semi-frontal view of the SPHEREx observatory is seen during integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, U.S., in this handout photo obtained by Reuters on February 24, 2025. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY (Reuters) - A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water,
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...
Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...
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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...
SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...
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NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cutsPotential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes ...
NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.
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How did Andromeda's dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answersDozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space ...
The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by ...
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The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...
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