NASA SPHEREx · IPAC/IRSA DR1 · 0.75–5.0 µm
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Variable Star Investigations

Changing Lights

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Mission briefing

What are we investigating, and why?

SPHEREx revisits every part of the sky roughly every six months. Sources that brighten or fade between epochs can be pulsating giants, eclipsing systems or young stars still accreting. R Draconis, a Mira variable, is one of the fields the Spectral Scout model was built around.

01 Open the region's observation timeline
02 Compare the per-epoch composites
03 Check flags and coverage for each epoch
04 Submit a variability assessment
Imagery & science data: NASA / Caltech-IPAC SPHEREx DR1 via IRSA. Catalogue overlay: d3-celestial (BSD-3).StellarScope · created by Vaishal Anil & Parthiv — Team The Abyss, NASA Space Apps 2026AI: IFM K2 Horizon · NVIDIA Nemotron · Spectral Scout v2 (ONNX)