NASA SPHEREx Space Telescope Launch

NASA's successful launch of the SPHEREx space telescope (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will provide observation data of inprecedented detail over the 2-year mission. For the past three years, the Arizona Cosmology Lab has been involved in developing sophisticated analysis software and is ready for data to test their programs. The team hopes to significantly expand understanding of the inflationary era and to find dark matter tracers within the over 450 million galaxies to be mapped.  More...