[photo credit: City of Pasadena]
Roberta Paladini, a senior research scientist at Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), will lead a free public presentation titled “SPHEREx: A Launch Odyssey.” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory leads the entire mission, while Caltech’s IPAC houses the SPHEREx Science Data Center that processes and distributes all scientific data.
SPHEREx sweeps across the entire celestial sphere, taking about 600 exposures each day. During its 25-month primary survey mission, it will map the entire sky four times, collecting data on 450 million galaxies and more than 100 million stars within the Milky Way. The mission tackles three profound questions: the origins of the universe, the collective glow of galaxies, and the location of water and life’s building blocks throughout the Milky Way.
SPHEREx: A Launch Odyssey will run on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Linda Vista Branch Library, 1281 Bryant St., Pasadena. For more information, call (626) 744-7278 or visit https://www.cityofpasadena.net/library/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D194091846.
