The photon shields look like an Elizabethan collar. Pet owners may know it as the "cone of shame" given to animals after surgeries. For SPHEREx, this cone is an enabler, allowing astronomers to ...

The advanced observatory, an 8½ foot-tall cone-shaped telescope with infrared capabilities, will create a 3D map of the entire celestial sky every six months. SPHEREx will also use a technique ...

Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars where new solar systems emerge. The cone-shaped Spherex — at ...

Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, SPHEREx will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars where new solar systems emerge. The cone-shaped SPHEREx — at ...

Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars where new solar systems emerge. The cone-shaped Spherex — at ...

Light cone: SPHEREx features three concentric shields that surround the telescope to protect it from light and heat (courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA has launched a $488m infrared mission to map the ...

The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer ... and most recently because of bad weather at the launch site. The cone-shaped spacecraft finally lifted off at roughly 8:10 p.m. PT Tuesday ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory was photographed at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in November 2024 after completing environmental testing. The spacecraft’s three concentric cones help ...

Scientists hope SPHEREx will provide data lending new insights into the origins of the universe and whether the ingredients for life exist anywhere else in our Milky Way galaxy. The telescope ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...