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NASA's SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Capturing Entire Sky
Friday May 2, 2025. 09:00 AM , from Slashdot
![]() When SPHEREx takes a picture of the sky, the light is sent to six detectors that each produces a unique image capturing different wavelengths of light. These groups of six images are called an exposure, and SPHEREx takes about 600 exposures per day. When it's done with one exposure, the whole observatory shifts position -- the mirrors and detectors don't move as they do on some other telescopes. Rather than using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels, which spin inside the spacecraft to control its orientation. Hundreds of thousands of SPHEREx's images will be digitally woven together to create four all-sky maps in two years. By mapping the entire sky, the mission will provide new insights about what happened in the first fraction of a second after the big bang. In that brief instant, an event called cosmic inflation caused the universe to expand a trillion-trillionfold. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/02/0419244/nasas-spherex-space-telescope-begins-capturing-e...
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