New NASA telescope will observe star birth and death in the Milky Way's evolution - CNN

Called the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, or COSI, the gamma-ray telescope will observe the formation of chemical elements in the Milky Way and study the birth and death of stars.

"COSI will answer questions about the origin of the chemical elements in our own Milky Way galaxy, the very ingredients critical to the formation of Earth itself."

The telescope will also explore the hazy origins of our galaxy's positrons, subatomic particles that have a positive charge and a mass comparable to an electron, which has a negative charge.

The Spitzer Space Telescope retired in 2020.

But new telescopes are preparing to launch and explore the universe in innovative ways.

It's going to be a busy decade, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to launch in December, followed by the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope in the mid-2020s, and now Compton in 2025.