NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Maps Interstellar Ice in Milky Way
17 Apr 2026, 14:14 GMT
By Monika Luabeya
Topic: SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-spherex-observatory-maps-interstellar-ice-in-milky-way/
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. The