Why scientists can hardly expect NASAS new Spherex world space telescope

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A modest NASA world space telescope with large ambitions will soon be in a orbit around the earth.

The megaphone-shaped spaceship with spherex short for spectro-photometer for the history of the universe, the era of the Reisation and the ICES Explorers Soll on Tuesday (March 4) share a journey on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force in California.

“I am most about the all-Hky nature of the Observatory Spherex entire Sky! “Keighley Rockcliffe, a postdoc at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who studies at the Goddard Space Flight Center at NASA Exoplanet, said to Space.com. The space telescope is designed so that it has to do with unsurpassed clarity. Galaxy, the Milky Way.

An important scientific goal for the Spherex mission is to determine the places of the basic ingredients of life, which are known in huge regions of gas and dust as molecular clouds in which stars and planets form. In order to achieve this, the telescope is equipped with a prism -like spectrophotometer to “see” in wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye, which enables it to illuminate millions of stars and galaxies for scientists into more than a hundred infrared colors. “This is the key to the search for the mission for water and other life -related molecules and connections,” said Rockcliffe.

While scientists have previously found many complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium and protoplanetar discs, “we still don’t know much about the actual frequencies of useful building blocks,” astrobiologist Manasvi Lingam from the Florida Institute of Technology told Space.com. This means that scientists have no strong restrictions on how efficiently frozen water molecules are transferred from interstellar clouds to protoplanetary windows on which they would finally be included in newborn planets, he said. “This mission can improve the data and help to make better forecasts for the likelihood of life origin in these worlds.”

By mapping the entire sky, the 488 million dollar mission can also show the distribution and chemistry of interstellar dust, which, according to rock cliffs, is not very well understood in almost every astronomical observation that has ever been recorded.

“Many astronomers think about interstellar dust as an annoyance, it stands in the way when we observe more objects or objects in more detail,” she said. “Spherex will prove that there are interesting things that hide between our stars that we should be interested in.”

Another important science goal for Spherex is to help scientists narrow down the difficult to grasp physics that drives the almost instant space in the first billion dollar in a trillionthle of a second after the Big Bang – a phenomenon called Cosmic Inflation. “We do not simply understand physics because it contained energy scales what goes beyond everything that we can examine on earth,” said Olivier Dore, the project scientist for the Spherex mission.

Spherex will put together a 3D card with distributions of more than 450 million galaxies, which shows very subtle signatures waves that are reinforced during inflation and are impressed into the large-scale structure of the universe-which can be attributed directly to the first moments of the universe, said Dore.

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Since the spherex telescope depicts the entire sky four times four times in the next two years, it will also observe the pockets of the universe and the scientists have never looked at before, added Dore.

“It will be visually striking and very powerful.”