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NASA's SPHEREx Is Poised To Launch Mission To Map 450 Million Galaxies In Color


NASA's SPHEREx observatory (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) is set to launch this week to map 450 million galaxies in infrared, providing insights into galaxy formation, the origins of water, and testing theories about the unive...

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