Introducing NASA's Roman Space Telescope

  • Released Thursday, March 5, 2026
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Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. This observatory will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, dark matter, and infrared astrophysics.

Music credit: “Fire,” by Frederick Helmut Wiedmann [GMR], Universal Production Music

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

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A short, vertically-formatted overview of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. One version does not have captions on screen.

Music credit: “Fire,” by Frederick Helmut Wiedmann [GMR], Universal Production Music

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