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NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Maps Interstellar Ice in Milky Way

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April 17, 2026 49 views
Original source: NASA

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 turbulent regio...