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February 28, 2025 at 02:08 AM
🔆 NASA’s New Space Telescope – SPHEREx
📍 Mission Overview
✅ 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
✅ The telescope will identify water & life-forming molecules (biogenic molecules) like carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
✅ These molecules are frozen in icy particles in distant galaxy regions, and SPHEREx will study how they might have reached Earth.
