This video shows a sequence of all-sky images from NASA’s NASA’s Spectro- Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer telescope (SPHEREx). Each frame of the movie shows the entire sky imaged in a different infrared color, or wavelength of light. While infrared colors are not visible to the human eye, they are represented here in visible colors. The images were collected between May and December 2025. The color bar in the top right corner indicates which infrared color is shown. It also indicates infrared colors that reveal the presence of particular cosmic features. For example, dense clouds of dust in our galaxy where stars and planets form radiate brightly in certain wavelengths but emit no light (and are therefore totally invisible) in others.

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