NASA has just turned the entire sky into a kind of infrared rainbow, capturing it in 102 distinct colors that reveal structures and histories our eyes can never see. By scanning the cosmos in this ...

Less than a year into its mission, NASA’s SPHEREx has already completed its first full survey of the sky, producing a near-infrared map that captures the entire cosmos in a staggering 102 colors.

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...