NASA, solar wind and SPHEREx Telescope
Liftoff! NASA’s Twin Missions Launch to Unravel the Big Bang & Solar Storms
SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover cosmic history and the building blocks of life.
NASA SPHEREx Telescope Is Launched to Study Universe's Origins
The U.S. space agency's megaphone-shaped SPHEREx - short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer - was carried aloft by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...
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The Solar System’s Most Extreme Weather—And Where It HappensThe Solar System is a vast and varied landscape offering an array of planetary and moonscape phenomena unlike anything found ...
SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...
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The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dustThe stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
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The first stars may have flooded the early universe with waterSimulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...
Update: Delayed again. Now targeting Friday, March 7 for launch and March 6 for prelaunch news briefing. NASA and SpaceX are ...
The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...
In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...
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Astronomers identify a celestial '3-body problem' lurking in the outer solar systemNew research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...
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