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SPHEREx TELESCOPE

04-03-2025

General Science Current Affairs Analysis

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is tentatively scheduled

to launch its new megaphone-shaped space telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9

rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

• The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization

and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) telescope is a megaphone-shaped telescope.

Aims of SPHEREx Telescope

• It will map the universe while detecting two kinds of cosmic light, optical and

infrared.

• It will measure something called cosmic inflation. (It refers to a period which took

place around 14 billion years ago, during which the universe expanded faster than

the speed of light for a fraction of a second).

• It will help better understand things about the formation of the universe, the growth

of all galaxies across cosmic history, and the location of water and life-forming

molecules in the Milky Way galaxy