NASA's SPHEREx Launches Soon and Will Search For Water in Molecular Clouds

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During its planned two-year mission, the SPHEREx space telescope will observe approximately 450 million galaxies and 100 million stars in the Milky Way.

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NASA's SPHEREx Launches Soon and Will Search For Water in Molecular Clouds

As far as we can tell, life needs water. Cells can’t perform their functions without it. Some have suggested that other exotic liquids, like liquid methane, could do the job on worlds like Saturn’s moon Titan. That idea is highly speculative, though. So, it makes sense that NASA is launching a spacecraft dedicated to the search for water. SPHEREx stands for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explo…