Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights

Oct 24, 2023 - NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Primary Instrument for NASA’s Roman Completed, Begins Tests

Sep 13, 2023 - A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished assembling the spacecraft’s giant camera.

NASA Begins Integrating ‘Nervous System’ for Roman Space Telescope

Aug 23, 2023 - What's eight times taller than Mount Everest? Roman's harness (if it were laid out end-to-end) of course! Just like the human nervous system, all this wiring will help different parts of the observatory communicate – and now it's ready for integration

New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

Jul 19, 2023 - New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that orbit stars. The results imply that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch by May 2027, could find a staggering 400 Earth-mass rogue worlds.

NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up To Investigate Dark Energy

Jun 27, 2023 - A new space telescope named Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important contributions from NASA, is set to launch in July to explore why the universe’s expansion is speeding up. Scientists call the unknown cause of this cosmic acceleration “dark energy.” By May 2027, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will join Euclid to explore this puzzle in ways that have never been possible before.

NASA Completes Heart of Roman Space Telescope’s Primary Instrument

May 16, 2023 -The heart of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, for integration into the WFI (Wide Field Instrument).

Goddard Team Builds, Tests Calibrator for NASA’s Roman in Record Time

Apr 18, 2023 - A vital subsystem for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, and installed in the spacecraft’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI).

Millions of Galaxies Emerge in New Simulated Images From NASA's Roman

Mar 8, 2023 - Scientists have created a gargantuan synthetic survey that shows what we can expect from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s future observations.

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Rewind the Universe

Mar 1, 2023 - A new simulation shows how NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will turn back the cosmic clock, unveiling the evolving universe in ways that have never been possible before when it launches by May 2027.

High-Gain Antenna for NASA’s Roman Mission Clears Environmental Tests

Feb 6, 2023 - Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished testing the high-gain antenna for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. When it launches by May 2027, this NASA observatory will help unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and explore many topics in infrared astrophysics.

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