SPHEREx Mission Launched from California

SpaceX Launches NASA's Newest Astrophysics Observatory

Mar 12, 2025

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NASA's newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for the ingredients of life in our galaxy. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx lifted off at 8:10 p.m. PDT on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Fal…

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