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After several delays, NASA's SPHEREx launches in mission to map 450 million galaxies

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The SPHEREx mission is designed to map the entire celestial sky, studying hundreds of millions of galaxies and piecing together how the universe formed and evolved.

The spacecraft’s instruments will observe the cosmos in 102 different colors, or wavelengths, which NASA says is more than any previous mission.

The $488 million observatory will survey the whole sky four times over its two-year mission.

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