NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X
15 Apr 2026, 15:04 GMT
Topic: Photojournal
Source URL: https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nasas-spherex-mission-maps-water-ice-throughout-cygnus-x/
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 regions of star birth in our Milky Way galaxy.