NASA’s newest eye on the cosmos is officially open for business, commencing its regular science operations this week with the main charge of mapping the universe. After a six-week calibration period, NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer—mercifully shortened to SPHEREx—has begun its two-year mission to build an […]
Latest Webb Image Is Straight Out of Star Trek
The Webb Space Telescope is charged with imaging the cosmos at infrared and near-infrared wavelengths, so it should come as no surprise when it captures a familiar object in an entirely new way. Nevertheless, we’re impressed. Webb imaged an edge-on protoplanetary disk with unerring precision, capturing the object’s wind and jets, according to an ESA […]