US EditionNASA Unveils Panoramic Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The observatory will map hundreds of millions of galaxies and study dark matter and dark energy with a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's.
- On Tuesday, NASA unveiled the fully integrated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, with plans to ship it to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch as early as fall 2026.
- Named for NASA's first chief of astronomy, the project is eight months ahead of schedule and designed to work alongside the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble to observe the cosmos.
- The telescope's wide-field instrument can chart 200 times more sky in a single image than Hubble, prompting NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to state, "Roman will give the Earth a new Atlas of the universe."
- Researchers will study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets using the Roman Coronagraph, which can detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, advancing fundamental cosmic understanding.
- Once operational, the telescope will travel to Lagrange Point 2, approximately 1 million miles from Earth, to conduct a years-long campaign of deep space imaging and map the universe's structure.
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The US space agency NASA on Tuesday unveiled a new telescope that will scan vast swaths of the universe in search of planets beyond the solar system and explore the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
(AFP) NASA presented its new Roman space telescope, designed to explore vast areas of the universe in search of exoplanets, but also of responses to the great physical mysteries posed by dark matter and energy. This latest-generation telescope "will offer Earth a new atlas of the universe," NASA director Jared Isaacman, from the Goddard center of the U.S. space agency in Maryland, in the east of the country, where it was completed. The silver de…
NASA presented its new Roman space telescope, designed to explore vast areas of the universe in search of exoplanets, but also of responses to the great physical mysteries posed by dark matter and energy.
Move over Hubble — NASA’s new Roman Telescope is faster, bigger, and launching soon
Just off its successful Artemis II mission around the moon, NASA has unveiled its fully assembled Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.The next-generation observatory is named for NASAs first chief of astronomy, who helped create the Hubble Space Telescope.The Roman telescope can capture images 100 times larger and 1,000 times faster than Hubble. It is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in September.RELATED STORY | Artemis II crew splash…
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