The NASA announced Thursday that your space observatory SPHEREx officially initiated its scientific operations, which is an important step towards discovering new knowledge about the origin of the universethe evolution of galaxies and the basic components of life on the Milky Way.
SPHEREx It will take approximately 3,600 daily images for the next two years, as the entire sky systematically explores.
It was launched on March 11 and has spent the last six weeks making checks, calibrations and other activities to ensure that it works correctly, according to the NASA.
-With scientific operations already underway, SPHEREx It will draw the positions of hundreds of millions of galaxies in three dimensions. Its objective is to address some of the deepest questions of cosmology, such as the origin of the universe and the evolution of its large -scale structure.
“SPHEREx will play a key role in the answer to the big questions about the universe that we address in the NASA Every day, “said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, at home director of the Astrophysics Division of the headquarters of the headquarters NASA en Washington.
The Observatory will complete more than 11,000 orbits throughout its 25 months of scheduled survey operations, giving about 14 and a half laps around the earth per day, according to the NASA.
