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Description
SPHEREx is NASA’s all-sky near-infrared survey, producing spectrophotometric measurements of the entire sky at 6 arcsecond resolution in 102 spectral channels spanning 0.75 to 5 microns. The mission launched on March 11, 2025, and by late 2025 the mission completed one full sky survey after 6 months of its 2-year mission. This talk will describe the SPHEREx science data and findings from observations in SPHEREx's 650km low-Earth orbit. The science team is well on its way to achieving its science goals, and the full sky coverage has enabled preliminary SPHEREx science in a broad range of fields, including galaxy redshifts, cosmological intensity mapping, mapping of galactic ices, the distribution of Galactic dust through PAH emission, and solar system science. The science data become available to the public within 60 days of acquiring it, and the talk will describe ways to access and interact with the data through the archive system.