Every object glows differently across infrared light. Pick a target, change the lens and wavelength, and watch stars, brown dwarfs, galaxies and asteroids separate. Click any object to read its details.
Each dot is one band, coloured by its lens. The white line marks the wavelength you are viewing.
Each dot is one object. Change the lens and watch the dots rise and fall. Objects of one type group together. Click a dot to select it.
Use 08h55m10.8s or 133.79 for RA, and -7d14m42s or -7.245 for declination.
Pin a sticky note with your infrared discoveries, unusual spectra, or any glitches you ran into. Attach a screenshot or capture the current sky view directly.
Drag to look around, scroll or pinch to zoom, and tap any label to fly there.
Think of this website like a giant spaceship cockpit! You can fly around our planets in 3D, or peek through a magic rainbow telescope that sees invisible heat in space.
This is the 3D Solar System screen you see when the site first opens.
Click Sky lab at the top to look through SPHEREx's special space telescope.
Human eyes can only see normal light, but SPHEREx sees infrared heat! Slide through Lenses 1 to 6 to make different space objects glow.
Great for spotting normal hot stars. The sky looks full and sparkly here!
Great for finding faraway swirling galaxies and giant clouds of frozen water in space.
Bright stars fade away here, so chilly brown dwarfs and space rocks finally pop out!
Paints invisible heat in bright rainbow colours—hot stars look blue and cool objects glow red.
Hides all the still stars so only blinking stars and moving space rocks stay visible.
Connects all 8 pictures together into dotted lines so you can see fast stars zooming across space.
Turn up Brightness boost to see super-faint galaxies, or slide Zoom out to see a wider patch of sky.
Want us to set up the telescope for you? Tap any mission button below and watch it work!
Jumps to WISE 0855 and turns on Lens 6 so a cold, dark star-like world glows brightly.
Jumps to Barnard's Star and turns on Trails so you can see its dotted path across the sky.
Jumps to R Draconis and turns on Spot change so you can watch it pulse brighter and dimmer.
Jumps to Epsilon Indi B and zooms way out in rainbow colours to reveal its bright partner.