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NASA honors Caltech’s Jamie Bock for SPHEREx universe
Caltech’s Jamie Bock, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics and JPL senior research scientist, is receiving NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer). SPHEREx, launching in March 2025, is a space telescope studying the birth of our universe, the evolution of galaxies, and interstellar ices.
Caltech’s Jamie Bock will receive NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his leadership of the SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will map over 450 million galaxies during its two-year observation period. Launched in March 2025, SPHEREx studies the birth of the universe, galactic evolution and the formation of stars and planets. “Despite its modest size, SPHEREx addresses some of the most fundamental questions…
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