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Our birthday! The SPHEREx team celebrated the one-year anniversary of selection with three cakes decorated in honor of the three SPHEREx science themes. They were lovingly baked by Project Manager Allen Farrington. There was disagreement within the team as to which was was the most delicious. More data will have to be obtained.

CfA scientists present their work to students at Somerville's JFK Elementary School.

PI Jamie Bock is giving the first public lecture describing SPHEREx since it was selected.

Michael Zemcov of RIT described SPHEREx at the Weekly Space Hangout!

Some places where the SPHEREx selection has featured in the news.

We are excited and humbled to announce that NASA has selected SPHEREx as its next medium-class explorer mission, for launch in 2023!

SPHEREx team members from Argonne National Laboratory have created an exciting new visualization of the galaxy catalog that SPHEREx will generate (if approved by NASA, that is).

The SPHEREx Concept Study Report has been submitted to NASA!

Last week, SPHEREx PI Jamie Bock gave the weekly colloquium at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

SPHEREx and the other MIDEX finalists are described in this Science article.