[LINK] The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

[Jan Whitaker]

The name threw me. Nancy Grace is the name of a disgraced US judge who 
spouts off on I think the Fox network. I kept waiting for the punchline 
about space between her ears....

This poor poor scientist!

On 19/06/2022 11:52 am, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Note: To help celebrate this new telescope NASA has also launched a game, playable online at:
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> https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/game.html  with just five controls, your 4 arrow keys and the space bar. 😊
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> The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ..
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> Information about the telescope .. https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/about.html
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> The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a next-generation observatory that will peer through dust and across vast stretches of space and time to survey the infrared universe.
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> The mission will help us solve some of the most profound mysteries in astrophysics, such as how the universe has evolved, its ultimate fate, and whether we are alone.
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> Roman’s enormous view of space and fast survey speeds will allow astronomers to observe planets by the thousands, galaxies by the millions, and stars by the billions.
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> The mission also aims to help illuminate two of the biggest cosmic puzzles: dark energy and dark matter.
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> Named after pioneering NASA executive Nancy Roman, known as the “Mother of Hubble” for helping the agency birth the legendary Hubble Space Telescope, the new observatory will dramatically expand researchers’ ability to see and study the cosmos.
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> Roman was a formidable astronomer, and the observatory that bears her name will investigate mysteries such as what’s causing the universe to expand and which planets exist beyond our solar system.
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