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From the design of the spacecraft to launch and operation - the journey is long. Key components of NASA's SPHEREx instrument, designed to investigate important questions about the universe, now in its more realized state. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's SPHEREx Satellite: Exploring the Universe in 102 Infrared Colors 

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"This is the first mission to view the entire sky in so many colors," said Jamie Bock, principal investigator of SPHEREx, which operates jointly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech.
The Spitzer Space Telescope is in orbit. Image: NASA

NASA's Spitzer space telescope ends its life after 16 years of astronomical discoveries

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NASA discovered bucky balls in space

A NASA telescope has detected fullerene compounds in space for the first time

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From left to right: Jingle Liu, Xi-Cheng Zhang, Jianming Dai. Credit: Rensselaer/Daria Robbins

Breakthrough in remote sensing of hidden explosives

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Photograph of the prototype of the device (credit: Public Relations)

The hitherto untapped terahertz frequencies will enable the remote detection of explosives and camouflaged munitions

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The spiral galaxy IC 342. Photo: WISE Space Telescope

The hidden galaxy

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

To explore the hidden universe: NASA launches the last of the large observatories SIRTF (renamed Spitzer)

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