Washington: The American space agency NASA is preparing to send its new telescope into space, which will be used to help map the universe and protect the Earth from asteroids.
In a new research paper written by researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, the authors report that SPHEREx will use NEOWISE sensitivity to measure the temperature of millions of objects in the solar system. Will provide an opportunity to close.
NewWise is NASA’s successful asteroid-finding mission that has discovered more than 3,000 near-Earth objects during its 10-year operation.
According to the authors, the data obtained from Sphere X will help detect potentially dangerous objects and ultimately help save the planet.
While researchers are working on ways to destroy these objects or change their orbits, some scientists are busy classifying the objects as best as possible, and this is where SphereX comes in handy.
NASA’s Sphere X telescope, which is expected to launch in the second quarter of 2025 or later, will conduct an optical and infrared survey of the entire sky for two years in space.
The main objective of this mission is to collect data on 300 million galaxies and 100 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
