Posted on 09/01/2026 2:04:34 PM PDT by Libloather
NASA's new flagship astronomical observatory was launched into space from Florida on August 30 on a mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a roughly $4 billion project, was carried aloft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The telescope is designed to investigate cosmic enigmas such as dark energy and dark matter, while also testing gravity at vast scales and searching for exoplanets. Roman will travel through space toward an orbital location called Lagrange Point 2, situated about a million miles (1.6 million km) from Earth. Its mission is planned for five years, though the U.S. space agency said the telescope may have enough fuel for five additional years.
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“There isn’t just one Web Hubble ‘scope?”
Actually it’s the Hubble Webb Roman telescope.
lol... ikr ?...
but believe me, it’s fitting. just read the thread. and, some of the mood spilled over from another thread as well.
One thing I have learned over the years is that we can let differences get in the way SO MUCH that we make enemies out of friends. I’ve done it-I’ve had others do it to me. Not so much here, but in my personal life.
I always got along good with people I worked with who were democrats-AS LONG AS WE DIDN’T TALK POLITICS. Work, sports, food, beer. It’s good to have ground rules.
There was a friend of mine in the astronomy club who I admired very much for his knowledge and his ability to communicate astronomy to people who would come to our observatory. I also admired his jokes over a few beers.
There were a couple of times when we got into it over politics- he was extremely liberal. Harsh words said-hard feelings created. We then agreed not to talk politics, since we weren’t going to change each other’s minds.
I haven’t seen him in over twenty years. He won’t come to meetings anymore.
I guess what I’m trying to say is we can agree to disagree, but we all DO have similar beliefs in other subjects, let’s focus on what we DO agree on.Let’s just not be so nasty to each other.
Let’s save it for the liberals.
on second thought... the guy youre obviously sucking up to, or defending... nothing he said in any of his posts you commented either way on... but you responded negatively to me for one sentence.
makes me wonder why I bothered being nice to you...
“Let’s save it for the liberals.”
Amen
I knew a joke like this was coming.
Thanks for that. Very informative.
I think he was saying that DEI taints the very deserving Nancy Grace Roman. To those who don’t know her accomplishments, they will write off the naming of this telescope after her, to another non-deserving DEI, first woman blah blah blah.
Despite that not being remotely true. Real pioneers get lumped into the pile that the Kamala Harris’s are tossed into.
Well, Galileo. He was an Italian, but that’s real close to being a Roman.
He did have to go to Rome to recant his discoveries under the baneful eye of the Pope. But still he whispered, “And yet it does.”
I’m sorry to hear that.
Dr. Grace in her latter years
Nancy Grace Roman uses the telescope at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI in 1948. Famous astronomers Edwin Hubble and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar also studied at Yerkes.
The headline baffled me for a moment . I thought of that awful TeeVee woman had something to do with a Roman telescope.
My son used to operate a solar observation satellite that at Lagrange point 1. Also 1.5 million miles from earth. I suppose they won’t be trading paint with the telescope.
He left NASA and is with a private space agency now.
Supposedly the telescope was accidentally invented by a lens maker in the Netherlands. Galileo heard about it and made his own telescope.
The Yerkes observatory still has the largest refracting telescope anywhere (40 inches in diameter). It isn’t practical to build larger refracting telescopes.
How much has been spent so far looking for things that aren’t there?
That’s a ridiculous reason to deny a worthy person an honor. In a backhanded way, t’s just allowing the DEI game to dictate how things are done.
I don’t think he knew much about her at all.
“ My son used to operate a solar observation satellite that at Lagrange point 1. Also 1.5 million miles from earth. I suppose they won’t be trading paint with the telescope.
He left NASA and is with a private space agency now.”
Wow, I bet he has lots of stories.
Does he still get to operate satellites?
Yea. Space Force type stuff.
“Webster Hubbell
American lawyer, politician, and felon”
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