Washington:
A NASA telescope was launched on Tuesday in the Room in California for a mission to explore the origin of the universe and to search the Galaxy Melaxy for hidden water reservoirs, an important ingredient for life.
The megaphone -shaped spherical shape of the US Space Agency – shortly before Spectro -Photometer for the history of the universe, era of Reionization and Ices Explorer – was worn up by a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
We have launch!
Punch and Spherex take a carpool to the room (on board a @Spacex Falcon 9 Rocket) after launching @Sldelta30 at 11:10 pm et (0310 UTC). pic.twitter.com/j8kpqlg8iz
– NASA (@Nasa) March 12, 2025
During its planned two -year mission, the observatory will collect data over more than 450 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars on the Melkweg. It will create a three -dimensional map of the cosmos in 102 colors – individual wavelengths of light – and will study the history and evolution of galaxies.
The mission is intended to deepen the concept of a phenomenon known as cosmic inflation, referring to the fast and exponential expansion of the universe from a single point in a fraction of a second after the big bang that took place about 13.8 billion years ago.
“Spherex really tries to get to the origin of the universe – what happened in those very few first instants after the Big Bang,” said Spherex instrument scientist Phil Korngut of Caltech.
“The reigning theory that describes this is called inflation. As the name states, it suggests that the universe has undergone a huge expansion, which went smaller than the size of an atom, which sets out a trillion-billion only a small group of a second,” Korngut said.
Shawn Domagal -Goldman, acting director of the Astrophysics Division at the NASA headquarters, said that Spherex is going to look for “reverb of the Big Bang -the fractures of a second after the big bang that helled in the areas, Spherex will immediately observe.”
Spherex will take photos in every direction around the earth and split the light from billions of cosmic sources such as stars and galaxies in their component golf lengths to determine their composition and distance.
Within our Melkweg, Spherex will search for reservoirs of water frozen on the surface of interstellar dust grains in large clouds gas and dust that give rise to stars and planets.
It will be looking for water and molecules, including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide frozen on the surface of dust grains in molecular clouds, which are dense areas of gas and dust in interstellar space. Scientists believe that Ice reservoirs are bound by dust pellets in these clouds where most of the water shapes and living are from the universe.
Launch Together with Spherex, a constellation of satellites for NASA's Punch – shortly before polarimeter to unite the Corona and heliosphere – mission to better understand the solar wind, the continuous stream of loaded particles of the sun.
The solar wind and other energetic solar events can cause space -weather effects that have damage to human technology, including the disrupting satellites and activating power outages.
The Punch Mission tries to answer how the atmosphere of the sun passes to the solar wind, how structures are formed in the solar wind and how these processes influence the earth and the rest of the solar system.
The mission includes four satellites the size of a suitcase that will observe the sun and its surroundings.
“Together they make the three -dimensional global image of the solar – Corona – the atmosphere of the sun – while it changes to the solar wind, the material that fills our entire solar system,” said Punch Mission Scientist Nicholeen Viall by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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