A NASA telescope was brought to space from California on Tuesday to explore the origins of the universe and search the Milky Way for hidden water reservoirs, an important component for life.
The megaphone-shaped spherex of the US space agency, short for the spectral photometer for the history of the universe, the era of restoration and the ICES Explorer, was worn by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in high Maot.
During its planned two -year mission, the observatory collects data on galaxies of more than 450 million and more than 100 million stars on Milky Ways. It creates a three-dimensional map of the cosmos in 102 color-individual wavelengths of light and examines the history and development of galaxies.
The mission aims to deepen the understanding of a phenomenon known as cosmic inflation, and refers to the quick and exponential expansion of the universe from a single point in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, which took place around 13.8 billion years ago.
“Spherex really tries to achieve the origins of the universe – which happened in these few first moments after the big bang,” said Spherex instrument scientist Phil Korngut from CalTech.
“The reigning theory that describes this is referred to as inflation. As the name expects, it suggests that the universe goes through an enormous expansion and grows more than the size of an atom and expanded a trillion fold in just one tiny fraction of a second,” said Korngut.
Shawn Domagal-Goldman, reigning director of the Astrophysics department at NASA headquarters, said that SPHEREX will search for “Nachhall from the Big Bang-Die factions a second for the Big Bang that echoed into the areas in the areas, Spherex will directly observe.”
Spherex takes photos in all directions around the earth and divides the light from billions of cosmic sources such as stars and galaxies in their component wavelengths to determine their composition and distance.
In our galaxy, Spherex is looking for water reservoirs, which are frozen on the surface of interstellar dust grains in large gas and dust clouds that cause stars and planets.
It will search for water and molecules, including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, which are frozen on the surface of dust grains in molecular clouds that have dense regions of gas and dust in interstellar space. Scientists believe that ice troops bound to dust grains in these clouds to most water shapes in the universe and live.
Together with Spherex, a constellation of satellites for the mission of NASA (polarimeter for standardizing the Corona and heliosphere) is better to understand the sunwind, the continuous flow of charged particles from the sun.
The sun wind and other energetic solar events can cause room weather effects that have chaos with human technology, including the interference of satellites and triggering power outages.
The punch mission tries to answer how the atmosphere of the sun merges into the sun wind, how structures are formed in the sun wind and how these processes influence the earth and the rest of the solar system.
The mission comprises four suitcase satellites that observe the sun and its surroundings.
“Together they step on the three-dimensional global view of the sun corona-die atmosphere of the sun together as they turn into the sunwind. This is the material that fills our entire solar system,” said the punch missionist Nicholeen Viall of Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
