The new NASA space telescope shot in orbit on Tuesday to map all the sky as never before, a look of hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of Millions of galaxies and its cosmic brightness shared from the beginning of time.
Spacex He launched the Spherex Observatory of California, placing it in the course to fly over the Earth’s poles. The labeling was four suitcase size satellites to study the sun. Spherex first left the upper stage of the rocket, which moved away in the blackness of space with a blue earth in the background.
The $ 488 million spherex mission aims to explain How the galaxies formed and evolved more than billions of years, and how the Universe expanded so fast In his first moments.
Closer to home in our own Galaxy of the Milky Way, Spherex will look for water and other ingredients of life in the frozen clouds among the stars where new solar systems arise.
The cone -shaped spherex, 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the weight of a tail piano, will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and a wide field of vision. Four complete sky surveys are planned for two years, since the telescope surrounds the globe from the post to the post 400 miles (650 kilometers) above.
Spherex will not see galaxies with exquisite details such as the largest and largest and largest and elaborate webb telescopes in NASA, with its narrow fields of vision.
Instead of counting galaxies or focusing on them, Spherex will observe the total brightness produced by the entire lot, including the first formed following the Big Bang of creation of the Universe.
“This cosmological brightness captures all the light emitted on cosmic history,” said the chief scientist of the Jamie Bock mission of the California Institute of Technology. “It is a very different way of seeing the universe,” allowing scientists to see which light sources may have been lost in the past.
When observing the collective brightness, scientists hope to discover the light of the first galaxies and learn how they became, Bock said.
“We will not see the Big Bang. But we will see the consequences of him and learn about the beginning of the universe in that way, ”he said.
Infrared detectors of the telescope can distinguish 102 invisible colors for the human eye, producing the most colorful and inclusive map ever made of the cosmos.
It is like “Looking at the universe through a set of rainbow glasses,” said Beth Fabinsky Project Manager of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
To maintain super cold infrared detectors, less 350 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 210 degrees Celsius) – Spherex looks unique. It has three aluminum-carcom cones, one inside the other, to protect from the sun and heat from the earth, which resembles a 10-foot (3 meters) shield necklace for a sick dog.
In addition to the telescope, the Falcon of Spacex rocket provided an elevator of the Vandenberg space force base for a NASA satellite quartet called Punch. From their own separate polar orbit, the satellites will observe the crown of the sun or the outer atmosphere, and the resulting solar wind.
The launch of the night was delayed two weeks due to Rocket and other problems.
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