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This pageBlink 36 SPHEREx images of one patch of sky: stars hold still, anything that jumps is moving.

A second traveler in Aquarius

One degree north of the first field, also on the ecliptic. Here SPHEREx caught a dot crossing the patch over about a day and a half in June 2025.

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The same patch, with time as the third dimension

Stack every image of this patch in the order it was taken, 2.1 days from bottom to top. A star sits at the same spot in each, so it would draw a vertical line. The moving object leans across the stack: each dot is one measured position, and the faint line on the floor is the path on the sky.