NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now aiming for an earlier launch in September 2026. Designed to explore dark matter, dark energy, and distant exoplanets, the telescope will capture massive, ultra-detailed surveys of the cosmos using infrared vision. Scientists expect Roman to uncover hundreds of millions of galaxies and possibly even entirely new cosmic phenomena. Its enormous data archive could reshape astronomy for decades.
  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    The coolest thing about it is that it should be pretty good at spotting gravitational micro-lensing, so it should be capable of discovering rogue planets – planets drifting freely in interstellar space, away from any star.