{"id":205111,"date":"2025-02-01T01:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nasas-new-spherex-space-telescope-to-launch-in-february-it-can-do-what-the-jwst-cant"},"modified":"2025-02-01T01:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:07:14","slug":"nasas-new-spherex-space-telescope-to-launch-in-february-it-can-do-what-the-jwst-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nasas-new-spherex-space-telescope-to-launch-in-february-it-can-do-what-the-jwst-cant","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February \u2014 it can do what the JWST can\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-new-spherex-space-telescope-to-launch-in-february-it-can-do-what-the-jwst-cant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPHEREx could, though (in a way).<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, SPHEREx won\u2019t rival the JWST\u2019s ability to observe highly localized regions of the universe that are confined to the infrared section of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, unlike the JWST, it is an all-sky survey. Whereas the $10 billion JWST is great at observing things like specific nebulas and relatively narrow but tremendously dimensional deep fields, SPHEREx is intended to image the <em>entire sky<\/em> as seen from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity\u2019s history, and we will see that every six months,\u201d said Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate. \u201cThis has not been done before on this level of color resolution for our old sky maps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPHEREx could, though (in a way). To be fair, SPHEREx won\u2019t rival the JWST\u2019s ability to observe highly localized regions of the universe that are confined to the infrared section of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, unlike the JWST, it is an all-sky survey. Whereas the $10 billion JWST is great at observing things like specific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205111","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}