NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Just Mapped the Cosmic Ices That Will Someday Build Planets

NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Just Mapped the Cosmic Ices That Will Someday Build Planets
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/Itzx4Me)

New missions mean new capabilities - and one particularly interesting new mission is finally up and running. Data is starting to come in from SPHEREx, the medium-class surveyor that is mapping the entire sky every six months. A paper based on some of that early data was recently published in The Astrophysical Journal, mapping ice and compounds called Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) throughout some interesting regions of our Milky Way.

April 20, 2026 at 08:29PM
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