The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.
Map-maker Jeff Clark thinks the Sea to Sky region has it all. “As a cartographer, this thing checks all the boxes,” said Clark, 61. “It’s got mountains, it’s got fiords, it’s got ocean ...
At the touch of a button, these revolutionary instruments are able to slew to your chosen target without needing to use sky maps to find your way around the night sky. They’re not aimed at any ...
About the size of a subcompact car, SPHEREx will enter a polar orbit around Earth and create a map of the entire sky in 3D, taking images in every direction, like scanning the inside of a globe.