Nasa Launches Satellite Viewer to Capture Origins of the Universe

Nasa's newest space telescope rocketed into orbit on Tuesday to map the sky like never before, taking a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time.

- Associated Press

SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth's poles. Also in the payload were four suitcase-size satellites to study the sun. Spherex was the first to leave the rocket's upper stage.

The $488m (£377m) Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.