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The XRISM collaboration has discovered flows of hot gas in the core of the Centaurus Cluster. By comparing state-of-the-art X ...

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SPHEREx will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies, as well as search the Milky Way for water and organic molecules ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

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Content continues below Given that each of SPHEREx's maps will cover the entire celestial shpere, NASA says that they can also be used to locate targets of interest for other more focused telescopes.

The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the ...

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Called SPHEREx, the instrument will map 450 million galaxies and search for water molecules that may be clinging to space dust ...