NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time.

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time.

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT), members of mission control appeared elated, onlookers who caught a peek at the liftoff cheered, and the scientists who built these missions exuded a blend of relief and excitement.

The NASA SPHEREx telescope will use infrared instruments and a broad field of view to map the entire sky. It will observe the total cosmic glow from after the Big Bang.

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to map the entire sky and study the universe's beginnings. The device was launched into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope, designed to map the entire sky and study the origins of the universe. The device was launched into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket from the base in California. The SPHEREx space telescope,

It rocketed toward orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The US space agency said the telescope will help explain how galaxies formed a