Nasa on Tuesday Launched Its Newest Space Telescope, Spherex, Designed to Map The Entire Sky in Unprecedented Color.
It Rocketed Toward Orbit on a Space X Falcon 9 Rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Us Space Agency Said the Telescope Will Help Explain How Galaxies Formed and Evolved Over Billions of Years and How The Universe Expanded So Fast in Its First Moments.
Tagging Along Were Four Suitcase-Size Satellites Assigned to a Mission Called Punch to Study the Sun.
The launch comes after it was Ponsponed Due to Poor Weather Condition and Problems With The Rocket After The Initial Window Opened On February 28.
What is the purpose?
Spherex-Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of
Reionization and Ices Explorer – is a $ 488 million (EUR 477 million approx.) Mission.
The Megaphone-Shaped Telescope Will Take Pictures in Every Direction Around Earth, Splitting the Light from Billion of Cosmic Sources Including Stars and Galaxies Into Their Component Wavelengtths to Cork Out Their Composition and Distance.
The Observatory Desires Take Six Months to Survey The Entire Sky With Its Infrared Eyes and Wide Field Of view
The Project Will Gather Data On More Than 450 Million Galaxies and Create A Three-Dimensional Map of the Cosmos in 102 Colors.
It’s like “Looking at the Universe Through a Set of Rainbow-Colored Glasses,” Said Deputy Project Manager Beth Fabinsky of Nasa’s Jet ProPpulsion Laboratory.
A Total of Four Full-Sky Mappings Are Slated Over a Period usually
Closer Home Within the Milky Way Galaxy, The Telescope Will Look for Reservoirs of Water Frozen On The Surface of Interstellar Dust Grains In Large Clouds of Gas and Dust Which Give Rise to Stars and Planets.
