A new observatory in NASA was launched in space on Tuesday on a mission that could help scientists detect what happened in the first fractures of the second after the big explosion.
the SPHEREX mission (Short for the spectral scale for the history of the universe, the era of re -ionization and Explorer was designed to designate the entire heavenly sky, study hundreds of millions of galaxies and collect how the universe form and its development.
The launch has been postponed several times since late February to give engineers more time to assess the missile and its components, according to NASA, the last of which is due to bad weather at the launch site.
On Tuesday, the spacecraft was removed on Tuesday at approximately 8:10 pm at the top of the Spacex Falcon 9 missile from Vandinburg Space Base in California. Also along the ride to the orbit, four satellites were the size of a bag that NASA will spread on a separate mission to study the sun.
SPAREX Observatory of $ 488 million will wipe the entire sky four times on its two -year mission. The spacecraft tools will notice the universe in 102 different colors, or wavelengths, which NASA said is more than any previous task.
SPHEREX Observatory in a horizontal position, allowing us to see all the three layers of photon shields as well as telescopes.
The colors in the infrared range are mainly invisible for humans because infrared light has longer wavelengths than the eye can see. However, in space, infrared light carries from stars, galaxies and other celestial objects basic information about their composition, density, temperature and chemical makeup.
The technique known as spectrum analysis of scientists allows infrared light analysis, and divide it into different colors such as how a publication can separate sunlight into a colored rainbow. As such, the data collected by the SPAREX Observatory will give researchers an insight into chemistry and other characteristics of hundreds of millions of galaxies in the universe.
NASA said that these notes can help scientists study how to form galaxies, follow the origins of water in the Milky Way, and collect what happened yet Big Bang that created the universe About 13.8 billion years.
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