NASA's new telescope will unlock big bang clues and other space mysteries

National Aeronautics and ministration (NASA) is bringing its latest telescope one step closer to launch, ncy anunced on January 6. colossal gget named Spectro-Photometer for History of Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) aims to look for evidence of Big Bang ory and map resulting pattern of galaxies. SPHEREx is also tasked to search for water and frozen organic molecules in outer . 

“NASA's upcoming telescope, Spectro-Photometer for History of Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx, is one step closer to launch. mission has officially entered Phase C, in NASA lingo. That means ncy has approved preliminary design plans for observatory, and work can begin on creating a final, detailed design, as well as on building hardware and software,” a statement on NASA’s website re.

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To launch between 2024 and 2025

According to NASA, subcompact car-sized telescope is set to launch between June 2024 and April 2025, following which it would embark on its two-year-long journey. During its outer voy, telescope would map entire sky four times using spectroscopy wherein it would break near-infrared light into its individual wavelengths, or colours, just like a prism breaks sunlight into its component colours.  ncy stated that data from spectroscopy could reveal what an object is composed of as discrete elements reflect light at different wavelengths. It could also help gauge an object’s distance from planet earth. "That's like going from black-and-white ims to colour; it's like going from Kansas to Oz," said Allen Farrington, SPHEREx project manr at JPL.

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team is working on development of telescope h alrey completed a “preliminary design review” in October 2020. It was during this period that team convinced NASA ministration that y could turn dream telescope in a reality. SPHEREx team is w scheduled to spend 29 months building mission components before entering next mission phase, when those components will be brought toger, tested, and launched, res a statement on NASA’s website.

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Im: NASA