NASA's Roman Space Telescope will reveal the universe in a way the JWST and Hubble cannot

Even if you aren't the kind of person who often looks up the latest space images, it's hard to navigate life (especially on the internet) without running into a few.

Try choosing a new iPhone background and you'll have your pick of sharp, gray moon portraits.

Watch an old "Star Trek" episode and you may not realize how many of those translucent nebulas outside the spaceship's windows were based on real, hard data.

When it comes to space, we're spoiled.

Mind-bending objects light-years away from us have managed to become integrated into our everyday lives — and though we're still a ways away from understanding the true nature of the universe, we're also the closest we've ever been.

It's in large part thanks to how impeccable our fleet of space telescopes is.

In seconds, you can find a Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field with luminescent galaxies warped along the curvature of spacetime and James Webb Space Telescope images of strange hazy red objects from just after the dawn of time.

Moreover, what's tremendously exciting is this fleet is constantly growing.

Indeed, very soon, a new space telescope will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

It's called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope , and it should be able to unlock a new level in the astronomy layer of our lives.

It will show us new types of images, reveal new types of data and lead us in directions we may not yet know are possible.

What is Roman? To put it succinctly, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is an approximately 42-foot-long (12.7-meter-long), cylindrical metal observatory scheduled to lift off from our planet on Aug.

30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Across a five-year-long mission (a 10-year-long one if everything goes well), Roman is meant to use two powerful instruments — the Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) and Coronagraph Instrument — to image huge swaths of the cosmos and tackle some crucial questions.