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Aaron Vigil Helps Give SASS to Roman Space Telescope
The stars in the big Wyoming skies inspired Aaron Vigil as a child to dream big. Today, he’s a mechanical…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils
The universe is a dynamic, ever-changing place where galaxies are dancing, merging together, and shifting appearance. Unfortunately, because these changes…
Solar Panels for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Key Tests
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield has successfully completed recent tests, signaling that the assembly is…
NASA Selects 5 New Roman Technology Fellows in Astrophysics
NASA has awarded Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships (RTF) to five early-career researchers in astrophysics for the class of 2023. …
Primary Instrument for Roman Space Telescope Arrives at NASA Goddard
The primary instrument for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a sophisticated camera that will survey the cosmos from…
NASA Tests Deployment of Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Visor’
The “visor” for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed several environmental tests simulating the conditions it will experience…
How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research
NASA’s upcoming flagship astrophysics missions, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Habitable Worlds Observatory, will study planets outside…
How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Illuminate Cosmic Dawn
Today, enormous stretches of space are crystal clear, but that wasn’t always the case. During its infancy, the universe was…
Rebekah Hounsell: Tracking Cosmic Light to Untangle the Universe’s Darkest Mysteries
Rebekah Hounsell is an assistant research scientist working on ways to optimize and build infrastructure for future observations made by…
