Spirox: NASA’s new Space Observatory’s first pictures have already come to earth – Science
In March, Mission Spearx left for space With the ambitious mission: Map the entire celestial sphere in 102 infrared colors in the first time in the history of humanity. NASA confirms that all systems are working a few weeks after successful release.
The new telescope also captures its first images. According to the agency, the images are not yet ready for scientific uses, but have already predicted new opportunities to open the telescope.
Each bright points captured by Spearx represent a light source like a star or galaxy. All in all, each film has more than 100,000 light sources.
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NASA explains Each image has six different records, one for each telescope detection device. A set of images represents the full field of spherical, which contains a rectangular area 20 times wide than the full moon.
The telescope will start its scientific activity at the end of April and from there, capturing 600 images per day.
Since the sphere finds the infrared light, the human eye is invisible, Scientists attribute a color at each wavelength.
The second A NASAEach telescope detection equipment captures 17 special wavelengths, a total of 102 shades per set of six images. This is possible by decomposing colors in this wayEvelar, for example, distance from a composition of a particular spacecraft or galaxy.
From collected data, researchers can study different things, Brands left by the phenomenon of cosmic expansion in the first moments after the Big Bang.
