In December 2025, NASA unveiled the first all-sky cosmic map from its new space observatory, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionisation, and Ices Explorer).

Typically, when an architect sets out to build a bungalow, a shopping mall, or maybe a monument, they draw out every corpus of details and dossiers of maps that determine the positioning of features.