Why does life exist? How did the universe come to be? Is there anybody out there? or are we all alone?
Well....NASA's new SPHEREx infrared telescope, which is scheduled for launch this weekend, could answer those questions.
The two-year mission will gather images of 1 billion galaxies, 100 million stars, and 10,000 asteroids and help generate the most colourful map of the cosmos ever made.
Deanne Fisher is Associate Professor of Astronomy at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
She's excited about all this - and has written about the launch it in The Conversation.
NASA’s SPHEREx will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. Photo: Unsplash
