Frontiers Lecture: SPHEREx -- Mapping the Universe in Infrared
A lecture at the American Museum of Natural History on NASA's SPHEREx mission to map the universe in near-infrared light.
Why we picked this
NASA's newest space telescope is mapping 450 million galaxies and 100 million stars -- this is a chance to hear the science directly from the team making it happen.
The American Museum of Natural History’s Frontiers Lecture series presents a deep look at NASA’s SPHEREx mission — the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer. Launched to map the entire sky in near-infrared light, SPHEREx is designed to answer fundamental questions about the origins of water and the conditions that gave rise to life.
The mission will create a spectral map of 450 million galaxies and over 100 million stars in our own Milky Way, providing an unprecedented dataset for understanding cosmic inflation, the distribution of water ice in stellar nurseries, and the large-scale structure of the universe.
This is the Frontiers series at its best: working scientists presenting frontier research in one of the world’s great science institutions. Recommended for ages 16+.