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By Jet Propulsion Laboratory, March 26, 2022

NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission will be able to scan the entire sky every six months and create a map of the cosmos unlike any before.

Scheduled to launch no later than April 2025, it will probe what happened within the first second after the big bang, how galaxies form and evolve, and the prevalence of molecules critical to the formation of life, like water, locked away as ice in our galaxy.

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Achieving these goals will require cutting-edge technology, and NASA has this month approved final plans for all the observatory’s components.

Source: NASA SPHEREx Mission: Finalized Plans for a Cutting-Edge Cosmic Mapmaker

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What Libraries Can (Still) Do by James Gleick | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

October 27, 2015 DrWeb

Of the many institutions suffering through the world’s metamorphosis from analog to digital (real to virtual, offline to online), few are as beleaguered as that bedrock of our culture, the public library. Budgets are being slashed by state and local governments. Even the best libraries are cutting staff and hours. Their information desks are seemingly superseded by Google, their encyclopedias are gathering dust. And their defining product, the one that lines their shelves, now arrives in the form of a weightless doppelgänger that doesn’t require shelves.