The Roman Space Telescope | NASA's Next Observatory
NASA’s next great observatory that’s set to launch is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (which used to be known as WFIRST). The Roman Space Telescope is the successor to Hubble with a similar wavelength range and the same size telescope mirror.
2024-06-13 22:00:00 - Dr. Becky
But Roman has been designed to look at a much bigger region of sky at once; its field of view is 100 times bigger than Hubble’s! Roman is set to launch in 2026, so it’s not now that we have to wait now.
So in this video let’s chat about
1) who Nancy Grace Roman was and why the telescope is named after her.
2) Roman’s main science goals are and what it will study.
3) how it differ’s from ESA’s euclid space telescope which was launched last year.