The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics.
Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. This observatory will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.
🎯 NASA and SpaceX are targeting a 11:26 UTC liftoff on Sunday, Aug. 30.
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Watch the launch broadcast starting at 10:20 UTC
Learn more about Roman and how it will help us investigate some of the many mysteries of the universe in this video
