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What’s Lurking in the Universe? NASA's SPHEREx to Explore 300 Million Celestial Bodies

NASA recently announced an ambitious initiative called SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer), a space telescope designed to explore the ...
USA Today

Deep space exploration as NASA’s SPHEREx maps the galaxies

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...
Forbes

See NASA’s Jaw-Dropping New Cosmic Map From Its New Telescope

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...
The New York Times

NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions. By Katrina Miller Two ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT faculty part of NASA’s $242M SPHEREx mission

A Rochester Institute of Technology professor is part of a small team of scientists contributing to NASA’s new mission to explore the origins of the universe by performing the first near-infrared ...