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'The mirror passed with flying colors': NASA just took its last look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before launch
'The mirror passed with flying colors': NASA just took its last look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before launch The next time we see Roman, it will be in Florida readying for launch. We just took one final look at NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and now? It's officially ready for launch.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch on August 30
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch on August 30 It’s launching earlier than planned if everything goes well. NASA is targeting an August 30, 2026 launch date for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, eight months earlier than originally planned and sooner than the September schedule it announced earlier this year.
Identifying Gems from Roman RAPIDly
arXiv:2606.05103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), set for launch as early as September 2026, will conduct wide-field infrared imaging surveys with unprecedented spatial resolution and cadence, enabling the discovery of millions of astronomical transients. Hence, it is necessary to have automated pipelines for generating alerts in place so that the telescope can begin discovering reliable transients and variable objects soon after it is launched....
Peering into the Milky Way's far side, Roman could unveil 100,000 worlds
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to reveal around 100,000 worlds—a staggering leap compared to the nearly 6,300 found so far thanks to NASA missions working in tandem with other observatories. And Roman will primarily find them in underexplored regions of the Milky Way.
Roman telescope's massive infrared mirror is ready to fly
Roman telescope's massive infrared mirror is ready to fly Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor NASA has completed its final inspection of the primary mirror on the Roman Space Telescope, which measures 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) in diameter and contains a layer of silver hundreds of times thinner than a human hair, at 400 nanometers. The primary mirror will help accomplish Roman's mission objectives using near-infrared light, including studying dark matter and dark energy,...
A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now
I’m certain scientists before me have thought this about their own era, but nonetheless, I think we are living in a wildly exciting time for galaxy research. Though US and UK research budgets might be doing the opposite, our understanding of the universe is rapidly expanding. In just the few years since its launch on Christmas 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (what I prefer to call the Just Wonderful Space Telescope, or JWST) has transformed our understanding of what galaxies looked like...
Hidden supermassive black hole pairs may finally have a visible signal
Hidden supermassive black hole pairs may finally have a visible signal - Date: - June 5, 2026 - Source: - University of Oxford - Summary: - Scientists have proposed a new method for finding tightly bound supermassive black hole pairs by searching for stars that flash repeatedly as their light is magnified by the black holes’ gravity. The timing and brightness of these bursts could provide a unique fingerprint of black holes slowly spiraling toward a future collision. Astronomers from the...
A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the universe's rarest explosions
June 1, 2026 report A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the universe's rarest explosions Shreejaya Karantha Author Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic explosion thought to completely destroy some of the most massive stars in the universe, leaving behind no remnant. The paper outlining the properties of this rare explosion was...
Swirling spiral galaxy will hypnotize you | Space photo of the day for June 10, 2026
Swirling spiral galaxy will hypnotize you | Space photo of the day for June 10, 2026 This new Hubble image of galaxy M88 is downright mesmerizing. Be careful: if you stare at this galaxy for too long you might end up hypnotized.
Astronomers measure the mass of a dormant black hole, our solar system's lost protoplanet, and more science stories
Astronomers measure the mass of a dormant black hole, our solar system's lost protoplanet, and more science stories This week's science news. It's been an eventful week in science news. Astronauts on the ISS were briefly ordered to shelter in place after the discovery of an air leak in the transfer tunnel, NASA officially declared its MAVEN space probe dead and scientists announced the creation of a "universal vaccine" designed by AI.