Aspera Extreme Ultraviolet Galaxy Observatory
NASA’s Aspera is a planned extreme-ultraviolet astrophysics SmallSat designed to map warm-hot coronal gas around nearby galaxy halos. The mission will search for faint diffuse O VI emission to study the intergalactic medium and the flows of baryonic matter around galaxies.
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- Aspera
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- Aspera Extreme Ultraviolet Galaxy Observatory
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- development
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- spacecraft
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- NASA’s Aspera is a planned extreme-ultraviolet astrophysics SmallSat designed to map warm-hot coronal gas around nearby galaxy halos. The mission will search for faint diffuse O VI emission to study the intergalactic medium and the flows of baryonic matter around galaxies.
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- August 13, 2026 at 03:08:15 UTC
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- August 14, 2026 at 20:45:16 UTC