A NASA telescope launched space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and travel the dairy road galaxy for hidden water deposits, a key ingredient for life.
The megaphone spherex of the United States Space Agency, spectrum abbreviation -fotometer for the history of the universe, the time of reionization and ICES explorer, was transported high by a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket of the Vandenberg space force base in California.
During its two -year planned mission, the Observatory will collect data on more than 450 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars on the Milky Way. It will create a three -dimensional map of the cosmos in 102 colors, individual wavelengths of light, and study the history and evolution of galaxies.
The mission aims to deepen the understanding of a phenomenon known as cosmic inflation, which refers to the rapid and exponential expansion of the universe from a single point in a second fraction after the Big Bang that occurred approximately 13.8 billion years ago.
“Spherex is really trying to reach the origins of the universe, which happened in those first moments after the Big Bang,” said Spherex’s instrument scientist, Phil Korngut from Caltech.
“The reigning theory that describes this is called inflation. As its postulate name, it proposes that the universe underwent an enormous expansion, which passes from a smaller size than the size of an atom, expanding a trillion trillion in a small fraction of a second,” Korngut said.
Shawn Domagal -Goldman, interim director of the Astrophysics Division at the NASA headquarters, said Spherex will seek “Big Bang reverberations: the fractions of a second after the Big Bang that developed in the areas that Spherex will observe directly.”
Spherex will take photos in all directions around the earth, dividing the light of billions of cosmic sources such as stars and galaxies in their wavelengths of components to determine its composition and distance.
Within our galaxy, Spherex will seek frozen water deposits on the surface of the dust grains interstellar in large clouds of gas and dust that give rise to stars and planets.
It will look for water and molecules, including carbon dioxide and frozen carbon monoxide on the surface of dust grains in molecular clouds, which are dense gas and dust regions in interstellar space. Scientists believe that ice deposits attached to dust grains in these clouds are where most of the universe’s water is formed.
Throwed together with Spherex, it is a satellite constellation for NASA’s blow, an abbreviation that polarimeter unifies the crown and helosphere, the mission to better understand the solar wind, the continuous flow of particles loaded with the sun.
Solar wind and other energy solar events can cause spatial climatic effects that play for human technology, including interference with satellites and triggering power cuts.
The punch mission is trying to respond how the atmosphere of the sun passes to the solar wind, how structures are formed in the solar wind and how these processes influence the earth and the rest of the solar system.
The mission involves four satellites the size of a suitcase that will observe the sun and its surroundings.
“Together, they rebuild the global three -dimensional vision of the solar crown, the atmosphere of the sun, as it becomes the solar wind, which is the material that fills our entire solar system,” said Punch Mission scientist Nicholeen Viall of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
