Who Was Nancy Grace Roman? Namesake of New NASA Telescope
Summary
NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Sunday using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. This new telescope will study the universe with a much larger view than Hubble, aiming to find planets, galaxies, and other cosmic phenomena over a five-year mission.Key Facts
- The telescope cost $4.3 billion and is named after Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer.
- Nancy Grace Roman helped create NASA’s astronomy program and supported putting telescopes in space.
- The telescope has a field of view more than 100 times larger than Hubble’s.
- It will travel to a stable point in space about 1 million miles from Earth, near where the James Webb Telescope is located.
- The mission will last five years and focus on discovering planets, galaxies, black holes, dark energy, and dark matter.
- Scientists hope the telescope’s wide view will help find new objects and better understand how the universe has changed over time.
- Nancy Grace Roman was known as the “Mother of Hubble” for her role in developing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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