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February 28, 2025 at 02:08 AM
🔆 NASA’s New Space Telescope – SPHEREx
📍 Mission Overview
âś… NASA is launching SPHEREx on a two-year mission to study the universe's formation, galaxy evolution, and biogenic molecules in the Milky Way.
📍 Key Objectives
✅ Most Colorful Cosmos Map – SPHEREx will map the universe in optical & infrared light.
✅ Measuring Cosmic Inflation – It will study the universe’s expansion that occurred 14 billion years ago.
✅ 3D Galaxy Mapping – SPHEREx will use spectroscopic imaging to map 450 million galaxies.
📍 Search for Life
âś… The telescope will identify water & life-forming molecules (biogenic molecules) like carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
âś… These molecules are frozen in icy particles in distant galaxy regions, and SPHEREx will study how they might have reached Earth.
