Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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Aaron Vigil Helps Give SASS to Roman Space Telescope

The stars in the big Wyoming skies inspired Aaron Vigil as a child to dream big. Today, he’s a mechanical engineer working on the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS) for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at Goddard.

Posted August 29, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Dark Matter

Galaxies

Stars

The Universe

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils

The universe is a dynamic, ever-changing place where galaxies are dancing, merging together, and shifting appearance. Unfortunately, because these changes take millions or billions of years, telescopes can only provide snapshots, squeezed into a human lifetime. However, galaxies leave behind clues to their history and how they came to be.

Posted August 29, 2024

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Science-enabling Technology

Space Communications Technology

Solar Panels for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Key Tests

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield has successfully completed recent tests, signaling that the assembly is on track to be completed on schedule. The panels are designed to power and shade the observatory, enabling all the mission’s observations and helping keep the instruments cool. The Roman team has two sets of […]

Posted August 26, 2024

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Dark Energy

Dark Matter

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Science-enabling Technology

The Universe

Primary Instrument for Roman Space Telescope Arrives at NASA Goddard

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

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Goddard Space Flight Center

Science-enabling Technology

Space Communications Technology

NASA Tests Deployment of Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Visor’

The “visor” for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed several environmental tests simulating the conditions it will experience during launch and in space. Called the Deployable Aperture Cover, this large sunshade is designed to keep unwanted light out of the telescope.

Posted August 9, 2024

Citizen Science

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research

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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Active Galaxies

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

Science & Research

Stars

Supermassive Black Holes

The Big Bang

The Universe

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Illuminate Cosmic Dawn

Today, enormous stretches of space are crystal clear, but that wasn’t always the case. During its infancy, the universe was filled with a “fog” that made it opaque, cloaking the first stars and galaxies. NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will probe the universe’s subsequent transition to the brilliant starscape we see today –– […]

Posted July 25, 2024

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Rebekah Hounsell: Tracking Cosmic Light to Untangle the Universe’s Darkest Mysteries

Rebekah Hounsell is an assistant research scientist working on ways to optimize and build infrastructure for future observations made by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The mission will shed light on many astrophysics topics, like dark energy, which are currently shrouded in mystery.

Posted July 16, 2024

People of Goddard

Careers

Dark Energy

Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)

Goddard Space Flight Center

ICESat (Ice, Clouds and Land Elevation Satellite)

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

People of NASA

Tech Demo Missions

Technology

Women at NASA

Bente Eegholm: Ensuring Space Telescopes Have Stellar Vision

Bente Eegholm is an optical engineer working to ensure missions like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have stellar vision. When it launches by May 2027, the Roman mission will shed light on many astrophysics topics, like dark energy, which are currently shrouded in mystery.

Posted July 2, 2024