Cutting-Edge Roman Telescope Instrument Arrives at NASA’s Goddard Ready to Unravel Cosmic Mysteries

Scitech Daily ^ | August 19, 2024 | Ashley Balzer, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

[Red Badger]

300-million-pixel images!!!!!..............

[Red Badger]

New Space Telescope Ping!..............

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telescope

[MeanWestTexan]

I’m mainly impressed the Romans had this kind of tech.

I didn’t know they had rockets.

/joke

[TribalPrincess2U]

The future of mankind on camera. We may not like what we see.

[webheart]

Now here I was, thinking it was Galileo who invented the telescope, and I kind of heard that maybe the ancient Chinese may have had some, but this is the first time I have heard of the Romans having telescopes.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Greeks were all about Theory, but the Romans really built stuff.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope"

??? Isn't Nancy Grace a TV commentator on legal issues?

[Red Badger]

We all know that at some point the Sun will become a Red Giant and will incinerate EVERYTHING out to the orbit of MARS.

And eventually will go nova and everything left will be thrown out into the cosmos.

Every trace of humanity will be gone with not even a archaeological site left to explore.................

[Steve_Seattle]

When I saw the headline, I thought they had unearthed some ancient Roman telescope.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I WANT MY TELESCOPE FINISHED NOW!!!!!

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Roman

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I was just watching the old “Cosmos” PBS series, and they mentioned that Voyager took better pictures of the Jovian moons than any up to that time, and this was 1970’s era cameras.

I am surprised that space orbiting telescopes are not being used to improve on this.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Maybe it’s close than we think. As hot as it is here today, I believe! I believe!

[z3n]

I’m mainly impressed the Romans had this kind of tech. ~~~ LOL, this is what I thought when I read "nancy grace roman telescope"

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)

[MeanWestTexan]

I wonder if headline writers are stupid or playing games.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Thank you for the link.

It seems Galileo was deliberately burned up. This is NASA’s forte, but it is not a joke to recognize that an orbiting probe in a foreign moon system is not going to last long.

I am just wondering if earth-orbit imagery wouldn’t surpass what would be obtained by an older probe. Duration of study would be an easy win. Voyager saw volcanic eruptions on Io, for instance. I wonder if orbiting telescopes could do as well.

[Billthedrill]

After Roman launches by May 2027...

That's quite a wait for something that is "ready". Sure hope the folks in charge have gotten the Starliner crew back to Earth by then.

[Red Badger]

Hubble image left to right: Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubbles-grand-tour-of-the-outer-solar-system