SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer) - United Kingdom

This infrared image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by SPHEREx and is part of the mission’s first ever public data release. The thousands of stars in the image are mostly represented in shades of blue and green. The yellow patch on the right side of the image is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that glows in some infrared colors due to radiation from nearby stars.

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How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World

2 July 2025

NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the…

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), a space telescope, is situated on a work stand ahead of prelaunch operations at the Astrotech Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Jan. 16, 2025.

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NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell

22 April 2025

Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell…