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Set to launch in the mid-2020s, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore the mysteries of dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets, ushering in a new era of detailed cosmic surveys and discoveries. Credit: NASA ============================================================= NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, featuring a state-of-the-art camera, will significantly enhance our cosmic exploration, providing insights into dark energy, dark matter, and distant exoplanets through detailed, expansive surveys. The primary instrument for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a sophisticated camera that will survey the cosmos from the outskirts of our solar system all the way out to the edge...

The Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and explore many topics in infrared astrophysics. Credit: NASA A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but far larger than Hubble’s celebrated Ultra Deep Field Image. This Hubble observation transformed our view of the early universe, revealing galaxies that formed just a few hundred million years after the big bang. “Roman has the unique ability to image very large...

New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets – freely floating bodies that drift through our galaxy untethered to a star. Studying these island worlds will help us understand more about how planetary systems form, evolve, and break apart. Astronomers discovered planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, in the 1990s. We quickly went from knowing of only our own planetary system to realizing that planets likely outnumber the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy. Now, a team of scientists is finding ways to improve our understanding...

Artist’s conception of SIMP J01365663+0933473, a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. The object, about a dozen times more massive than Jupiter is traveling through space unaccompanied by any parent star.. Credit: Chuck Carter, NRAO/AUI/NSF ================================================================================ Upcoming NASA mission will search for planets in the Milky Way without their own sun. An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets — planets that float in space without orbiting a sun — than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes. “This gives us a window into these worlds that we would otherwise not have,”...