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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-01 Sky SPHEREx
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Infrared image showing a dense field of teal stars with faint, cloudy regions of interstellar dust, captured by NASA's SPHEREx mission.
PIA26352:
SPHEREx's Dust Cloud Reveal
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-05-01 Sky SPHEREx
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This video shows SPHEREx's field of view as it scans across one section of sky inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, with rainbow colors representing the infrared wavelengths the telescope's detectors see.
PIA26351:
SPHEREx Scans the Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-01 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx, which will map hundreds of millions of galaxies across the entire sky, captured one of its first exposures March 27, 2025.
PIA26280:
First Images From NASA's SPHEREx
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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Final assembly of NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft is shown at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in March 2024.
PIA26543:
Final Assembly of SPHEREx Observatory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as well as the telescope.
PIA26542:
SPHEREx in Horizontal Orientation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is installed in the Titan Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) test Chamber at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in June 2024.
PIA26541:
SPHEREx Prepared for Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is surrounded by speaker stacks used to perform acoustics testing, which subjects the spacecraft to the acoustics loads that it will experience during launch.
PIA26540:
SPHEREx Undergoes Acoustic Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is subjected to vibrations in all three axes separately. The test was successfully completed Aug. 16, 2024.
PIA26539:
SPHEREx Prepared for Vibration Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024.
PIA26538:
SPHEREx Spacecraft During Integration and Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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The SPHEREx observatory sits in a clean room after environmental testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late 2024.
PIA26537:
SPHEREx Spacecraft Nears Completion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx space observatory was photographed at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in November 2024 after completing environmental testing.
PIA26536:
SPHEREx After Environmental Testing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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In this illustration, NASA's SPHEREx mission is highlighted among a line of other NASA space telescopes.
PIA26535:
SPHEREx: Part of a Lineage of NASA Space Telescopes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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Members of the SPHEREx mission team pose for a photo on the campus of Caltech in Pasadena, California, in October 2023.
PIA26534:
SPHEREx Team at Caltech
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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Operating from low Earth orbit, the SPHEREx telescope will sweep across the sky, taking about 600 exposures each day.
PIA26533:
Building an All-Sky Map With SPHEREx (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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This artist's concept depicts the SPHEREx spacecraft's orbital plane in orange, and its field of view in green.
PIA26532:
SPHEREx's Perspective From Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-01-23 Sky SPHEREx
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This artist's concept shows the SPHEREx spacecraft and its distinctive conical photon shields, which protect the telescope from infrared light and heat from the Sun and Earth.
PIA26531:
SPHEREx in Orbit (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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NASA's SPHEREx will use these filters to conduct spectroscopy, a technique that scientists can use to study the composition of an object. Each filter has multiple segments that block all but one specific wavelength of infrared light.
PIA25788:
SPHEREx Detector Filters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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The telescope for NASA's SPHEREx mission undergoes testing at JPL. It is tilted on its base so it can see as much of the sky as possible while remaining within the protection of three concentric cones that protect the telescope from light and heat.
PIA25787:
SPHEREx Telescope at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Amelia Quan, mechanical integration lead for NASA's SPHEREx mission, is seen with a V-groove radiator, a piece of hardware that will help keep the space telescope cold.
PIA25786:
SPHEREx V-Groove Radiator
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Part of one of the protective photon shields for NASA's SPHEREx telescope are shown here being assembled at Applied Aerospace Structures in Stockton, California.
PIA25785:
SPHEREx Photon Shields Assembled
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-09 SPHEREx
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Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA's SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft's photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light and heat from the Sun and the Earth.
PIA25784:
SPHEREx Outer Photon Shield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-05 SPHEREx
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This animation shows the preliminary design for the spacecraft, including hexagonal sun shields that will help keep the instruments cool.
PIA23869:
SPHEREx Preliminary Design (Illustration)
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