{"id":30396,"date":"2025-02-27T05:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30396"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:57:38","slug":"spherex-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/spherex-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"SPHEREx Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SPHEREx Telescope Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>About SPHEREx Telescope<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer<\/strong> (SPHEREx) telescope is a megaphone-shaped telescope.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tenure:<\/strong> 2 year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Aims of SPHEREx Telescope<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>will map the universe<\/strong> while detecting two kinds of cosmic light, optical and infrared.<\/li>\n<li>It will measure something called <strong>cosmic inflation<\/strong>. (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).<\/li>\n<li>It will help better understand things about the <strong>formation of the universe<\/strong>, the <strong>growth of all galaxies across cosmic history<\/strong>, and the location of <strong>water and life-forming molecules in the Milky Way galaxy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will use spectroscopic images to measure the <strong>3D positions of about 450 million galaxies<\/strong> across cosmic history.<\/li>\n<li>It will complement the work being done by other infrared telescopes in space, such as the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Significance of SPHEREx Telescope<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mapping the whole sky enables astronomers to identify <strong>promising regions for life and gather large-scale data<\/strong> to separate meaningful patterns from anomalies, making this mission a transformative step in the search for life beyond Earth.<\/li>\n<li>We can determine the necessary conditions to form biogenic molecules in space. In turn, this can tell us about a crucial step in how life came to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>SPHEREx Telescope FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> Who is launching SPHEREx?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> What is SPHEREx NASA?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is a planned two-year mission that will survey the sky in optical as well as near-infrared light which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/nasas-new-telescope-will-create-the-most-colourful-map-of-the-cosmos-ever-made\/article69261258.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPHEREx Telescope will map the universe while detecting two kinds of cosmic light, optical and infrared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}