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NASA's SPHEREx Mission Will Investigate the Origins of the Universe (engadget.com)
NASA announced this week that it will create the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer: SPHEREx for short. It'll look at how our universe has changed, and how common the ingredients of life are in the Milky Way. From a report: The space agency is aiming for a 2023 launch and has already earmarked $242 million for the project, not including launch costs, which is supposed to last for at least two years. Once SPHEREx is already in orbit, it will observe and collect data on over 300 million galaxies, some as far as 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and 100 million stars in our own Milky Way every six months. It will use technologies adapted from Earth satellites and Mars spacecraft to survey the sky in optical and near-infrared light. Since it will use 96 wavelengths in all, it will give NASA a way to create an extremely detailed sky map with a resolution that's much, much higher than previous ones.
Was reading Alistar McGrath this last week and he proclaimed the superiority of religion to science is that science can only reveal "shallow truths". I guess SPHEREx is just another attempt to discover shallow truths.
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If the Universe is constantly expanding at a rate greater than the speed of light, then won't any information we get on it's origins from this be out-of-date by the time we get it?
Now, wouldn't properly funding an effort such as this be infinitely more beneficial to the U.S. and the rest of humanity than building a silly expensive wall that became obsolete about a century ago? I guess there's some perverse sort of continuum: a white whale coming from an orange whale.
We're discussing science and the quest for actual facts, actual knowledge, not fairytales, works of fiction, and outright lies.
Flat Earthers are this way ----->
I'm sure you'll have more to discuss with them then you will with any of us.
If only people dedicated as much energy to the cleverness of their experiments as the cleverness of their study names. The end result of this experiment will be, predictably, that there are a lot of points of light up there in the sky, far away and out of reach. Q. How common are the building blocks of life? A. Common enough to allow life to have started here on Earth Q. But is that really really common or not common at all? A. If I answer one or the other, will it make any difference during the lifetime of the human race?
The main goal of the telescope is to search for water and organic molecules in the Milky Way. A far cry from looking at the Big Bang or trying to find God for that matter.
Not sure how they manage to get "SPHEREx" out of that full title.
But I guess SPHUERIE didn't sound catchy enough.
Why else would drumpf want a space force? Certainly not for NASA
People do realize that the Space Force is just that part of the Air Force that launches and operates military satellites and the like, right? Russia has a similar arrangement.
I don't get why people think that was odd. The Army Air Corp became the Air Force after WWII when it became clear it was it's own disjoint specialty. This is much the same.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Ain't no space because ain't not globe earth
Why else would drumpf want a space force? Certainly not for NASA
Money at 2nd or 3rd hand. Name in the history books - especially if he USES it.
People do realize that the Space Force is just that part of the Air Force that launches.