NASA’s Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble
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A telescope with the mirror size of Hubble but a view 100 times wider is now two days from launch. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is headed to space, carrying ambitions that could reshape our understanding of the cosmos.
Roman is designed to survey vast stretches of the sky quickly, hunting for dark matter, dark energy, distant galaxies, and worlds orbiting other stars. Where the James Webb Space Telescope peers deep into narrow patches of sky, Roman casts an extraordinarily wide net.
University of Arizona researchers are central to the mission. Tim Eifler, who leads a cosmological interpretation team of more than 1,000 scientists worldwide, put it simply: "This infrastructure will take us from catalogs to cosmological interpretation. We'll be able to do things like determine how much dark energy and dark matter are in the universe." He added, "This really is a dream job."
Roman's science operations begin in January 2027.
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