The Big Bang theory is a cosmological model portraying how our current, perceptible universe became. Yet, there is still a lot to find out about the idea, especially with regards to what happened in those early microseconds after the big bang itself.

To do as such, the space organization has planned a space telescope that will have the option to test the universe for proof of those earliest minutes.

Right now bearing the incredibly cool moniker SPHEREx (another way to say “Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer”) NASA has reported it’s moving along pleasantly with its arrangement to build the telescope.

Next steps: Begin work on a last design and begin to construct the thing, with the end goal of launching somewhere in the range of 2024 and 2025.

The SPHEREx space telescope is required to be the size of “subcompact car” and, as indicated by a new NASA release, will “map the entire sky four times, creating a massive database of stars, galaxies, nebulas (clouds of gas and dust in space), and many other celestial objects.”

In the event that all goes to design, SPHEREx will be the very first NASA mission to make a “full-sky spectroscopy map in near-infrared,” noticing an aggregate of 102 close infrared colors.

“That’s like going from black-and-white images to color” explained Allen Farrington, project manager of SPHEREx.

The first priority of SPHEREx is to look for proof of something NASA says “might have happened less than a billionth of a billionth of a second after the big bang.”

By planning billions of galaxies across the universe NASA would like to discover statistical patterns that can help clarify what happened following the big bang, when the universe quickly extended. The recently made map will likewise help look for water ice and frozen organic molecules around recently forming stars.

SPHEREx is likewise wanting to find more about galaxy formation and might have the option to find how a portion of the first galaxies made stars.