{"id":212160,"date":"2025-05-07T04:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=2f12f2813ad6121da22e8c47565d702d"},"modified":"2025-05-07T04:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:27:27","slug":"spherex-starts-scanning-entire-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=212160","title":{"rendered":"SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Infrared image showing a field of copper stars with a distinct smoke-like cloud at the center.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg 2280w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=2048,1152 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=400,225 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=600,337 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=900,506 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=1200,675 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pia26352.jpg?resize=2000,1125 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A soot-like cloud is revealed in a section of the sky in this May 1, 2025, image from <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/spherex\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA\u2019S SPHEREx space observatory<\/a>. On May 1, SPHEREx began regular science operations, which consist of taking about 3,600 images per day for the next two years to provide new insights about the origins of the universe, galaxies, and the ingredients for life in the Milky Way. The observatory won\u2019t be the first to map the entire sky, but it will be the first to do so in so many colors. It observes 102 wavelengths, or colors, of infrared light, which are undetectable to the human eye.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s done with one exposure, the whole observatory shifts position \u2014 the mirrors and detectors don\u2019t move as they do on some other telescopes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/spherex\/nasas-spherex-space-telescope-begins-capturing-entire-sky\/\">Read more about SPHEREx and the images it will capture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A soot-like cloud is revealed in a section of the sky in this May 1, 2025, image from NASA\u2019S SPHEREx space observatory. On May 1, SPHEREx began regular science operations, which consist of taking about 3,600 images per day for the next two years to provide new insights about the origins of the universe, galaxies, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15765],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spherex-spectro-photometer-for-the-history-of-the-universe-and-ices-explorer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212161,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212160\/revisions\/212161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}