A New NASA Space Telescope, SPHEREx, Is Moving Ahead – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The observatory will map the entire sky to study the rapid expansion of the universe after the big bang, the composition of young planetary systems, and the history of galaxies.
NASA’s
upcoming space telescope, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the
Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx, is one step
closer to launch. The mission has officially entered Phase C, in NASA lingo. That
means the agency has approved preliminary design plans for the observatory, and
work can…

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