The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope blasts off. | Photo: NASA / John Kraus After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched .
It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon.
From this vantage point, Roman will conduct an unprecedented survey of the universe .
Its field of view is 100 times larger than Hubble's and, according to NASA, it can survey the sky 1,000 times faster using its 300-megapixel infrared camera.
Roman also has a Coronagraph system that can block and mask glare from stars, allowing it to directly image exoplanets , even smaller, older, and colder planets … Read the full story at The Verge.
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