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In honor of the completion of our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s spacecraft — the vehicle that will maneuver the observatory to its place in space and enable it to function once there — we’re bringing you some space crafts you can complete at home!

Find the color work pattern for the Roman emblem, the Wide Field Instrument focal plane, which can be incorporated into a myriad of different knitting projects such as scarves, hats, cowls, pot holders, etc..

Build your own 3D model of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! Try your hand as an engineer, and build a paper model of the Roman Space Telescope. Grab your scissors and glue (and safely) start building.

You have been given observation time on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. You only have one minute to catch as many astrophysical objects and phenomena as possible.

Our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope presents coloring pages. Unleash your creativity to bring these celestial scenes to life.

Infrared is red, Ultraviolet’s not quite blue, The Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope has some Valentine’s Day Cards for you!

Celebrate Halloween with this Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope footprint pumpkin stencil.

The current design of the mission makes use of an existing 2.4-meter telescope, which is the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope.

The WFI will use a special tiling pattern to perform its high latitude spectroscopic survey. A single image ‘footprint’ is produced by its 18-detector array and then takes an image slightly offset to cover the small gaps between the individual detectors. It repeats this process eight more times to create a mosaic covering 2.5 square degrees of sky.

This illustration compares the relative sizes of the areas of sky covered by two surveys: Roman’s High Latitude Wide Area Survey, outlined in blue, and the largest mosaic led by Hubble, the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), shown in red. In current plans, the Roman survey will be more than 1,000 times broader than Hubble’s.

The spectroscopic component of the High Latitude Wide Area Survey measures redshifts of tens of millions of galaxies via grism spectroscopy using the WFI over at least a 1700 deg² region that overlaps the region.

This Roman Simulated Image (1/140th Roman field of view) of center of our Galaxy

This figure illustrates the power of Roman’s wide field for studying galaxy clusters. In 2000 square degrees, the High Latitude Wide Area Survey will observe some 200 Abell clusters and a much larger number of more distant galaxy clusters.

Roman’s Field of View is compared to that of the Kepler space telescope. Kepler’s original survey monitored stars at an average distance of around 2,000 light-years where Roman’s will find planets up to 26,000 light-years away.

This simulated image showcases the red and infrared light of more than 50 million stars in Andromeda, as they would appear with the Roman Space Telescope. [Video version available]

A composite figure shows the region of Andromeda covered by the Roman Space Telescope simulation. It would be able to image the main body of Andromeda in just a few pointings, surveying the galaxy nearly 1500 times faster than Hubble. [Video version available]