SPHEREx In the News
As we begin getting the SPHEREx team organized following news of our selection and awaiting the official debrief by NASA, a few more news items. We have now been added to the list of missions at JPL. SPHEREx is also mentioned by Sky and Telescope , and we have a wikipedia page too.
Some places where the SPHEREx selection has featured in the news:
CNN | space.com | New Atlas | Engadget | Daily Express | Sky News | Sciences et Avenir (French)
Science | Phys.org | Astroblogs (German) | Popular Mechanics | Rochester First | Global Science (Italian)
Some of the SPHEREx press releases:
JPL | Center for Astrophysics | UC Irvine | Argonne National Laboratory | Arizona State University | Rochester Institute of Technology
Recent News
After weeks of preparation, the space observatory has begun its science mission, taking about 3,600 unique images per day to create a map of the cosmos like no other.
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NASA’s Newest Space Telescope Recognized at New York Stock Exchange
The SPHEREx astrophysics observatory will help answer big questions about the origins of our universe, of galaxies, and the ingredients for life in our galaxy.
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NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell
Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operates NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission to explore the origins of the universe. The New York Stock Exchange will...
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Processed with rainbow hues to represent a range of infrared wavelengths, the new pictures indicate the astrophysics space observatory is working as expected.
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NASA’s Recently Launched SPHEREx Ejects Dust Cover From Telescope
NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory, which launched into low Earth orbit on March 11, has opened its eyes to the sky. On March 18, the mission team commanded the spacecraft to eject the protective dust cover that shielded the telescope opening. Once science operations begin several weeks from now, SPHEREx (short for Specto-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices...
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