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NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X

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April 15, 2026 45 views
Original source: NASA

Description An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and tur...