{"id":214325,"date":"2025-05-20T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/spherex-space-telescope-begins-capturing-entire-sky"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:02:46","slug":"spherex-space-telescope-begins-capturing-entire-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/spherex-space-telescope-begins-capturing-entire-sky","title":{"rendered":"SPHEREx space telescope begins capturing entire sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spherex-space-telescope-begins-capturing-entire-sky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Launched on March 11, NASA\u2019s SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ensure it is working as it should. Now it\u2019s mapping the entire sky\u2014not just a large part of it\u2014to chart the positions of hundreds of millions of galaxies in 3D to answer some big questions about the universe.<\/p>\n<p>On May 1, the spacecraft began regular science operations, which consist of taking about 3,600 images per day for the next two years to provide new insights about the origins of the universe, galaxies, and the ingredients for life in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the hard work of teams across NASA, industry, and academia that built this mission, SPHEREx is operating just as we\u2019d expected and will produce maps of the full sky unlike any we\u2019ve had before,\u201d said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched on March 11, NASA\u2019s SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ensure it is working as it should. Now it\u2019s mapping the entire sky\u2014not just a large part of it\u2014to chart the positions of hundreds of millions of galaxies in 3D to answer some big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1965,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-mapping","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214325","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}