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“I am most interested in the full nature of the sky of telescopes – Spherex will observe the whole sky,” Keighley Rockcliffe, PhD student at the University of Maryland, said. In addition, Spherex is also designed to do so with unprecedented definition, creating a panoramic picture to help scientists solve questions about the origin of the universe, the galaxy and the essential components of life scattered in the galaxy.

A key scientific goal of Sphere is is to locate the basic components of life inside “molecular clouds” – a vast dust area of ​​stars and planets. To serve this goal, the telescope is equipped with a spectral machine like a prism to “see” at invisible wavelengths with the human eyes, helping to illuminate millions of stars and galaxies for scientists with more than 100 infrared. “This is the key to finding water and molecules, compounds related to other life,” Rockcliffe said.

Although many complex organic molecules have been discovered in the star -proof and planetary environment, people still do not know much about the abundant level of useful construction blocks, according to the Manasvi Lingam Space from the Florida Institute of Technology. This means that the scientists are unclear how the frozen water molecules are transferred from the cloud to the planet, where they will enter the newly born planets. “Spherex can upgrade data, helping to make better forecasts of the ability to survive life in those worlds,” Lingam said.

By mapping the entire sky, this $ 488 million NASA telescope can also reveal the distribution and chemical properties of the star dust, which has not been well understood despite the common presence in all astronomical observations.

Another important goal of Spherex is to understand the mysterious physical process that promotes an almost instant aneurysm, in just one billion dollars of a trillion dong of a trillion seconds after the Big Bang explosion – the phenomenon called “expanded universe”. “We do not understand the simple physical processes because it is related to the energy scale far beyond everything we can explore on Earth,” said Olivier Dore, scientist who participated in Spherex mission.

Dore said, Sphereex will map 3D on the way more than 450 million galaxies distributed, helping to reveal delicate signals – the ripples are amplified during the expansion and printing into the large -scale structure of the universe – helping to track down the first moments of the universe. The telescope is expected to map the entire sky 4 times in the next two years, allowing scientists to observe unprecedented universe areas before.