Diamond Member SpaceMan 0 Posted January 30, 2025 Diamond Member Share Posted January 30, 2025 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will create a map of the cosmos like no other. Using a technique called spectroscopy to image the entire sky in 102 wavelengths of infrared light, SPHEREx will gather information about the composition of and distance to millions of galaxies and stars. With this map, scientists will study what happened in the first fraction of a second after the big bang, how galaxies formed and evolved, and the origins of water in planetary systems in our galaxy.NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory rests horizontally in this April 2024 image taken at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado. This orientation shows the observatory’s three layers of photon shields – the metallic concentric cones. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 450 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up SPHEREx is targeted to launch no earlier than Feb. 27, 2025. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/204288-nasa-spherex%E2%80%99s-concentric-cones/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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