{"id":175436,"date":"2025-08-25T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175436\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:27:10","slug":"nasas-new-spherex-mission-observes-interstellar-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175436\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s New SPHEREx Mission Observes Interstellar Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observed interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS Aug. 7 to Aug. 15. The SPHEREx team has been analyzing insights from this data, and a research note is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2508.15469\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available online<\/a>. The agency\u2019s SPHEREx is one of NASA\u2019s space telescopes observing this comet, together providing more information about its size, physical properties, and chemical makeup. For example, NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/3iatlas\/2025\/08\/25\/nasas-webb-space-telescope-observes-interstellar-comet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webb<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/as-nasa-missions-study-interstellar-comet-hubble-makes-size-estimate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hubble<\/a> space telescopes also recently observed the comet. While the comet poses no threat to Earth, NASA\u2019s space telescopes help support the agency\u2019s ongoing mission to find, track, and better understand solar system objects.<\/p>\n<p>Alise Fisher<br \/>NASA Headquarters, Washington<br \/>202-358-2546<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/3iatlas\/2025\/08\/25\/nasas-new-spherex-mission-observes-interstellar-comet\/mailto:alise.m.fisher@nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alise.m.fisher@nasa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/813908918c06c6ff7a6c84b9253d62e0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>August 25, 2025<\/p>\n<p>More from Comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observed interstellar comet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[15875,159,783,28893,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-175436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-comets","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-space","11":"tag-spherex-spectro-photometer-for-the-history-of-the-universe-and-ices-explorer","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115091763880128992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}