NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are launching the SPHEREx telescope to investigate the building blocks of life and the universe's origins. Scheduled for launch at the end of February, SPHEREx will detect infrared light at wavelengths invisible to the naked eye, filling a critical observational gap. Unlike Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, which have limited fields of view, SPHEREx will survey the entire sky twice annually. Featuring unique cooling and protective design elements, it is expected to yield unexpected discoveries that deepen our understanding of cosmic evolution.
"I expect the unexpected to come out of the data for this mission," said James Fanson, the project manager of SPHEREx.
"It has a very large field of view and we see the entire sky twice each year," said Fabinsky.
"The whole thing looks like a giant funnel," said Beth Fabinsky, describing SPHEREx's design.
"A mere billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, our universe expanded dramatically," said Jamie Bock.
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