This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Hotel Mars. Episode N. Dr. Livingston, Dr. Space is here.

We are on our way to the far distance origins and more of our cosmos, our existence. Thanks to a new machine,

robot called SphereX, launched on March 11th, now operational. And I welcome the principal

scientist to help us understand what SphereX, the mission, and the results to look for in the coming years. I welcome California

Institute of Technology, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics, Jamie Bach. He is also a

senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Professor, a very good evening to you.

SphereX's mission is so vast. What is the first thing

you're looking for to it achieve and how's it going to do it? Good evening to you. Oh, yeah,

great to be here. Happy to tell you about Sphirics. It's super exciting since we just started our

science observations. Well, Sherics does a lot.

We've got some very exciting core science.

I would say the thing I'm most excited about

is we are going to make a big three-dimensional map

of the position of galaxies.

And we know that galaxies like to cluster together,

but that structure that we see on very big scales was actually imprinted from the Big Bang itself.

So one of the things we can do with Spherex is look back at how the Big Bang occurred in how we see these galaxies distributed over the whole sky.

You're going to map the sky, is that it? Everything around us.

Well, that's right. And so in doing that, we map the entire sky, the entire celestial sphere.

And we're doing that in a new way. The sky's been mapped before at multiple wavelengths, but we're doing it in a hundred and two near-infrared colors, which is the first time that's been observed like that.

So as you can imagine, when you do something new for the first time,

you know, there's the potential to learn new things.

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