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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will begin joining the payload to the spacecraft.
Posted December 12, 2024
Exoplanet Atmosphere
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanets
Gas Giant Exoplanets
The Planet WASP-69 b The Discovery The exoplanet WASP-69 b has a “tail,” leaving a trail of gas in its wake. Key Takeaway  WASP-69 b is slowly losing its atmosphere as light hydrogen and helium particles in the planet’s outer atmosphere escape the planet over time. But those gas particles don’t escape evenly around the […]
Posted December 10, 2024
Exoplanets
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
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By Grace Jacobs Corban The Discovery A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these form. Key Facts An international team of scientists used the NASA space telescope, TESS […]
Posted November 26, 2024
Exoplanet Detection Methods
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
Radial Velocity
Super-Earth Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only 3 million years old. And because such infant worlds are usually hidden inside obscuring disks of debris, it is the youngest planet so far discovered using the dominant method of planet detection. Key Facts The […]
Posted November 20, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, which includes a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror, nine additional mirrors, and supporting structures and electronics.
Posted November 14, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
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The Universe
The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing.
Posted September 17, 2024
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Infrared Light
Scientific Balloons
The Universe
Wallops Flight Facility
Scientists and engineers are ready to fly an infrared mission called EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) to the edge of space.  EXCITE is designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, during circumpolar long-duration scientific balloon flights.
Posted August 22, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science-enabling Technology
The Universe
The primary instrument for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a sophisticated camera that will survey the cosmos from the outskirts of our solar system all the way out to the edge of the observable universe. Called the Wide Field Instrument, it was recently delivered to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, […]
Posted August 13, 2024
Citizen Science
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s upcoming flagship astrophysics missions, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Habitable Worlds Observatory, will study planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
Posted August 8, 2024
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