{"id":118133,"date":"2021-01-07T06:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nasa-to-launch-spherex-telescope-into-space-in-2024"},"modified":"2021-01-07T06:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:22:17","slug":"nasa-to-launch-spherex-telescope-into-space-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/nasa-to-launch-spherex-telescope-into-space-in-2024","title":{"rendered":"NASA to launch SphereX telescope into space in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/1418450360\/2014\/07\/1418450360_3663154160001_small-galaxies--1280-x-720-.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>During its two-year mission, SphereX will map the entire sky four times, creating an enormous database of stars, galaxies, nebulas and other celestial objects.<\/p>\n<p>The space telescope will be NASA\u2019s first to build a full-sky spectroscopy map in near-infrared, and it will observe a total of 102 near-infrared colours.<\/p>\n<p>Allen Farrington, the SphereX project manager at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said: \u2018That\u2019s like going from black-and-white images to colour; it\u2019s like going from Kansas to Oz.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During its two-year mission, SphereX will map the entire sky four times, creating an enormous database of stars, galaxies, nebulas and other celestial objects. The space telescope will be NASA\u2019s first to build a full-sky spectroscopy map in near-infrared, and it will observe a total of 102 near-infrared colours. Allen Farrington, the SphereX project manager [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}