SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space.

Launched on 11 March, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer—better ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) telescope took its ...

SPHEREx stands for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer.

NASA's new space telescope SPHEREx delivers first infrared images capturing up to 100,000 celestial objects in a single exposure. (photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to ... ingredients in planetary systems. Melnick and three other Center ...

NASA’s SPHEREx, which will map hundreds of millions of galaxies across the entire sky, captured one of its first exposures March 27. The observatory’s six detectors each captured one of these ...

NASA’s latest space telescope has officially begun its mission—and it’s already proving to be a powerful new eye on the universe. The SPHEREx observatory, launched on March 11, has taken its very ...

The SPHEREx, which is short for Spectro-Photometer ... The new images, taken on March 27, confirm that all systems are "working as expected" and that the telescope is focused correctly, NASA ...

SPHEREx was launched into space on March 11. Over the past two weeks, a NASA team has checked that all systems are functioning as planned. In addition, the detectors and other hardware have been ...

"Our spacecraft has opened its eyes on the universe," said Olivier Doré, SPHEREx project scientist at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's performing just as it was designed to.