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This pageBlink 24 SPHEREx images of one patch of sky: stars hold still, anything that jumps is moving.

Survey tile in Capricornus

A 0.3 degree patch 1.3 degrees south of the ecliptic in Capricornus, imaged by SPHEREx 13 times in 4 visits over 21 hours. Picked automatically by the survey because it was imaged often enough to follow a moving object.

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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, 21 hours 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.