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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Eyes’ Pass First Vision Test

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • April 17th, 2024

Engineers at L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have combined all 10 mirrors for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Preliminary tests show the newly aligned optics, collectively called the IOA (Imaging Optics Assembly), will direct light into Roman’s science instruments...

How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • April 4th, 2024

Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled into steady nuclear fusion, or the mature phase of its life, it changes little for billions of years. One exception to that rule is...

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • March 12th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any other survey, mapping more of our galaxy’s stars than all previous observations combined.

NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • February 7th, 2024

Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new way using NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Once it launches by May 2027, astronomers will mine Roman’s wide...

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • January 31st, 2024

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • January 18th, 2024

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before. After NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, by May 2027, researchers will use its images to explore...

Prepping for Data From the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • December 19th, 2023

As part of a plan to prepare for the quantity and range of data that will be coming in from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently scheduled to launch by May 2027, NASA has granted funding to five project infrastructure teams (PITs), which will write software, run simulations, and plot...

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • November 14th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before.

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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • October 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of stars in search of tell-tale flickers that betray the presence of planets, distant stars, small icy objects that haunt the...

NASA’s Roman Mission Gears Up for a Torrent of Future Data

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • October 10th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected infrastructure teams will serve a vital role in the preliminary work by creating simulations, scouting the skies with...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Eyes’ Pass First Vision Test

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • April 17th, 2024

Engineers at L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have combined all 10 mirrors for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Preliminary tests show the newly aligned...

How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • April 4th, 2024

Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled into steady...

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • March 12th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any...

NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • February 7th, 2024

Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new...

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 31st, 2024

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 18th, 2024

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever...

Prepping for Data From the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • December 19th, 2023

As part of a plan to prepare for the quantity and range of data that will be coming in from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently scheduled to launch by May 2027,...

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • November 14th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before.

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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • October 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of...

NASA’s Roman Mission Gears Up for a Torrent of Future Data

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • October 10th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected...