NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The Space Telescope Science Institute Will Host Roman’s Science Operations Center and Data Archive NASAEstablished in 1958,…
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A technician holds one of Roman’s detectors. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the…
This illustration shows a white dwarf accreting matter from a companion star. Once the white dwarf reaches a specific mass tipping point, it explodes as…
This illustration shows the concept of gravitational microlensing with a black hole. When a black hole passes nearly in front of a more distant star,…
High-resolution illustration of the Roman spacecraft against a starry background. Credit: NASA NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to explore even more…
High-resolution illustration of the Roman spacecraft against a starry background. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Nancy Grace…
A member of the L3Harris team removes a cloth from the Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror. Credit: L3Harris Technologies The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s…
High-resolution illustration of the Roman spacecraft against a starry background. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space…
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy. Credit: NASA When…
Illustration of the WFIRST spacecraft against a starry background. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, team members are building…
WFIRST will make its microlensing observations in the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The higher density of stars will yield more…
An optical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an…