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One of the early test images taken by SPHEREx in April 2025. It shows a section of the sky at a wavelength, or color, of AE, which is invisible to the human eye but represented here in visible color. This particular wavelength (3.29 microns) reveals a cloud of dust made of a molecule similar to soot or smoke. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's SPHEREx maps the Vengeance in infrared in 102 colors

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The SPHEREx telescope, launched in 2025, scans the entire sky in unprecedented detail, detects water and organic compounds, and examines the moments of creation – and all the information is freely accessible to researchers and the public.
Artist's illustration of the SPHEREx spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA launches SPHEREx, a space telescope that may rewrite the story of the universe's origins

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The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the entire sky ever. Launching this weekend from Vandenberg Space Center in California, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
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.
Artist impression of the density of WASP-193b compared to cotton candy. Credit: University of Liege

Astronomers have discovered a strange "cosmic mystery" - a giant planet as airy as cotton candy

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WASP-193b, an unusually low-density giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star. It is about 1,200 light-years away from Earth and 50% larger than Jupiter, but seven times less massive
This illustration shows charged particles from Jupiter hitting the face of Europa, separating icy water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen molecules. The scientists believe that some of these newly formed oxygen gases can move into the moon's subsurface ocean, as the circled figure shows. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/PU

Will the moon Europa return? The Juno spacecraft discovered oxygen on Jupiter's moon

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NASA's Juno spacecraft directly measured charged molecules of oxygen and hydrogen from the atmosphere of Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons. According to new research by scientists at SwRI and Princeton, these observations provided
This image, taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on Aug. 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled into Martian rock in preparation for the rover's first attempt to collect a sample. It was captured by one of the rover's cameras in what the rover's science team called "cobblestone" in the area. The crater floor is broken and rough" in Jezero Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Did life exist on Mars and other planets? We may soon know through artificial intelligence

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Insisted on returning to service. Wahlberg (left) with a tank crew in reserve training Photo courtesy of the Wahlberg family

The scientist who did not return from the war

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Alexander Wahlberg, doctor of physical chemistry, returned to Israel after years of studying and working in the United States and worked at Kirya for nuclear research. He also insisted on continuing to serve in the reserves, as a patrol officer, and his death in the Yom Kippur War
The 2017 eclipse as photographed by the Chasing the Eclipse I project. Credit: SwRI/NASA/Daniel B. Seaton

NASA's science in the shadows: five fascinating experiments for the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024

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Using the high-altitude research plane WB-57, in one of the projects they will photograph the eclipse from a height of 15 km from the ground. The team hopes that taking the pictures above most of the atmosphere of the country will allow to see new details of
A diagram describing the main points of development

Optical detection of impurities inside water pipes

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Researchers have succeeded in developing a flexible sensing sheet that is inside a pipe in order to continuously monitor the quality of the liquid in it. By measuring the voltage induced within a layer of carbon nanotubes, it is possible to determine
organic molecules. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Identification of organic compounds using visible light

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Researchers from the University of Santiago in Chile, working in the field of machine learning, have succeeded in developing an innovative method for identifying organic compounds based on the refractive index at a single optical wavelength
Nanoscale electronic scaffolds into which cardiac cells can be integrated to create cardiac patches in June. The photo shows the nanoelectronic scaffold (in gold) along with recording devices (in purple) and the stimulator (in green) and heart tissue (in red) [Courtesy of Lieber Group/Harvard University]

Silver nanoparticles used in an innovative spectroscopic method

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An infrared spectrum is a chemical fingerprint that provides information about the composition and properties of various substances. Illustration: pixabay.

Chemical fingerprinting with the help of artificial intelligence

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Prof. Michel Mayor met with President Reuven Rivlin. Source: PR photo.

"Technological improvement in the field of spectroscopy made possible the wave of discoveries of planets outside the solar system"

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Abeldas Favretza, CEO of 'Integrated Optics'

Diagnose all types of jaundice in one sample, using the most compact laser in the world

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200 years since the birth of Robert Bunsen - the man thanks to whom we know what the distant stars are made of

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From the right (standing) Dr. Yevgeni Stambolchik, Prof. Yitzhak Maron, Kristina Stolberg, Guy Rosenzweig, Pesi Meiri. (seated): Dr. Eyal Krupp, Dimitri Mikitchuk

In short - particle accelerators

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Alexander Shilin, University of Illinois

Spectroscopy in the palm of your hand?

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Protein crystals, some of which were grown on the American space shuttle and some on the Russian space station.

How do you grow your crystals?

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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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Ganymede - Jupiter's moon - summary of findings

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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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Nm-Sm-B3 alloy. Photo: University of Provence in France

Materials that "remember" their structure

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

Spectrometer device with peak sensitivity

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

Hubble found organic molecules on a planet outside the solar system

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

The Spitzer Space Telescope was able to "see" and "smell" distant planets

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