No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Opens Up to the Hidden Universe
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has officially begun its journey of cosmic exploration after successfully ejecting its dust ...
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How Long Does It Take to Reach Mars? Travel Times, Challenges, and Future Innovations
Reaching Mars is no simple feat. While the idea of sending humans to the Red Planet is gaining traction, the journey itself presents immense challenges. With NASA and private companies like SpaceX ...
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A fancy new telescope is heading to space: Here’s what SPHEREx will do
The instrument, which is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... have a distinct design of three cone-shaped layers of photon shields that allow it to operate at temperatures of minus ...
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SpaceX rocket launches NASA SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar probes (video)
said Farah Alibay, the lead flight system engineer on SPHEREx at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California ... the observatory will keep the conical photon shields that surround its ...
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Star Trek: 11 Incredible New Technologies That Were Immediately ABANDONED
In Star Trek Into Darkness, John Harrison aka Khan casually renders all space travel obsolete. This would seem like an ...
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SPHEREx launches to conduct a cosmic census
Built by Ball Aerospace with a payload provided by Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ... at its widest — three nested photon shields that surround and protect its delicate ...