NASA’s new telescope launch hopes to answer some existenial questions
“How did the universe begin?
“How did galaxies start to develop?”
“Well, how did I get here?”
This week’s planned launch of NASA’s SPHEREx telescope seeks to provide insights into some of these existential questions.
Three things to know
How does one explore the origins of the universe?
But astronomers still don’t know what triggered that expansion, or why it occurred so extensively. The hope with SPHEREx is that scientists will be able to map out a clearer, broader picture of how our universe began.