by A new NASA observatory started on Tuesday with a mission that could help scientists, which happened in the first groups of a second after the big bang.
The spherex missometer (short for the spectral photometer for the history of the universe, the era of reilonization and the ICES Explorer) is designed in such a way that it depicts the entire heavenly sky and examines hundreds of millions of galaxies and how the universe has developed and developed.
The start had been postponed several times since the end of February to give engineers more time to assess the rocket and its components, according to NASA, and finally because of bad weather at the starting point.
The cone-shaped spaceship finally took off around 8:10 p.m. PT on Tuesday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. There were also four satellites in suitcases in large satellites for the trip to the orbit, which NASA will use on a separate mission to learn the sun.
The $ 488 million Spherex Observatory will examine the entire sky four times about his two-year mission. His instruments will observe the cosmos in 102 different colors or wavelengths, of which NASA is more than any previous mission.
The Spherex Observatory in a horizontal position, so that we can see all three layers of photon signs and the telescope.
Colors in the infrared area are essentially invisible to humans, since the infrared light has longer wavelengths than the eye can see. In space, however, infrared light from stars, galaxies and other heavenly objects have important information about composition, density, temperature and chemical make -up.
A technique known as spectroscopy enables scientists to analyze infrared light and divide it into different colors, similar to a prism can separate sunlight into a colorful rainbow. Data collected by the Spherex Observatory gives researchers an insight into the chemistry and other characteristics of hundreds of millions of galaxies in the universe.
NASA said the observations could help scientists to examine how galaxies form, track the origins of the water in Milky Way, follow up and assemble what happened after the big bang, which the universe created about 13.8 billion years ago.
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