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With this milestone complete, the primary mirror is ready for its next view: space.Music: “All This Time,” Joseph Michael Robbins [PRS], Universal Production Music Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_RomanLastLook.jpg (1280x720) [80.5 KB] || YTframe_RomanLastLook_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.1 KB] || YTframe_RomanLastLook_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [71.1 MB] || 15049RomanLastLookCaptions.en_US.srt [484 bytes] || 15049RomanLastLookCaptions.en_US.vtt [474 bytes] || 15049_RomanLastLook_4kGood.mp4 (3840x2160) [139.1 MB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_4kBest.mp4 (3840x2160) [340.9 MB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [4.0 GB] || ", "hits": 0 }, { "id": 15047, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15047/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-28T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Milky Way Habitable Zone", "description": "This infographic features artist's concept views of our Milky Way galaxy: face-on at the left and edge-on at the right. It highlights different galactic environments that could influence the development of planets and potentially life. The center of the galaxy is rich in the elements that form planets (like silicon, oxygen, and magnesium), which are forged by multiple generations of stars and supernova explosions. Planets there may be more common or larger, but they would also be flooded with radiation from densely packed stars (including massive ones that emit enormous amounts of high-energy ultraviolet light and X-rays). In the outskirts of the galaxy, where stars are much more spread out, radiation is far milder but there are also smaller amounts of planet-building materials. Nestled in between these regions is the galactic habitable zone, a happy medium where radiation levels and planet-forming elements balance out, increasing the likelihood of worlds that could support life. || MilkyWayZONES_Final_half.jpg (2160x1080) [438.6 KB] || MilkyWayZONES_Final.jpg (4320x2160) [1.2 MB] || MilkyWayZONES_Final.png (4320x2160) [5.9 MB] || MilkyWayZONES_Final_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.4 KB] || MilkyWayZONES_Final_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || ", "hits": 414 }, { "id": 15048, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15048/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-28T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Exoplanet Populations", "description": "This plot shows currently known exoplanets, with different categories highlighted. Roman will help fill in the bottom-right of the plot by finding small worlds in large orbits.Based on a graph by NASA/Ames Research Center/Natalie Batalha/Wendy Stenzel || Exoplanet_Populations_Final_quarter.jpg (1750x1250) [589.6 KB] || Exoplanet_Populations_Final_half.jpg (3500x2500) [2.1 MB] || Exoplanet_Populations_Final.jpg (7000x5000) [7.4 MB] || Exoplanet_Populations_Final.png (7000x5000) [47.4 MB] || Exoplanet_Populations_Final_half.png (3500x2500) [12.4 MB] || Exoplanet_Populations_Final_half_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.6 KB] || Exoplanet_Populations_Final_half_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || ", "hits": 375 }, { "id": 15000, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15000/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-19T20:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Telescope's Final Solar Panel and Deployable Aperture Cover Deployments", "description": "After each environmental test, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope verifies its moving pieces operate properly. These final checks demonstrate that the solar panels and Deployable Aperture Cover operate flawlessly, ensuring the observatory is ready for the demands of spaceflight.The mechanisms that drive these deployments are not engineered for gravity, where even large structures move with minimal resistance. The cleanroom’s airflow pushes against the broad surfaces of the solar panels and aperture cover, placing added stress on their hinges. To compensate, engineers conduct these tests behind a temporary plastic windscreen, carefully positioned and lifted into place by a crane.The Deployable Aperture Cover requires a weight-offloading system to operate here on Earth. Cables are attached to a network of pulleys and chains, effectively counteracting gravity and allowing the structure to move as it would in space. || ", "hits": 507 }, { "id": 15040, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15040/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Catch Last Look at NASA’s Newest Space Telescope", "description": "Scroll down to cut associated b-roll. || final_final_studio_Catch_One_Last_Look_of_NASA’s_New_Space_Telescope_4_Large.jpeg (1280x640) [262.4 KB] || final_final_studio_Catch_One_Last_Look_of_NASA’s_New_Space_Telescope_4_Large_print.jpg (1024x512) [194.9 KB] || final_final_studio_Catch_One_Last_Look_of_NASA’s_New_Space_Telescope_4_Large_searchweb.png (320x180) [109.7 KB] || final_final_studio_Catch_One_Last_Look_of_NASA’s_New_Space_Telescope_4_Large_thm.png (80x40) [8.5 KB] || ", "hits": 1080 }, { "id": 14912, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14912/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-08T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Weirdest Worlds Hubble Has Seen", "description": "Over 6,000 worlds and counting! NASA recently reached an incredible milestone in the search for planets beyond our solar system: more than six thousand confirmed exoplanets. From blazing hot Jupiters to mysterious super-Earths and puffy gas giants, each new discovery expands our view of the galaxy and deepens our oldest questions.When the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, not a single exoplanet was known. Yet Hubble’s precision and ultraviolet vision helped pioneer this field, revealing the atmospheres of distant worlds, tracing escaping gases, and uncovering exotic planets unlike anything in our solar system. Its studies have shown planets that are football-shaped, evaporating into space, or as dark as fresh asphalt, each one a testament to nature’s imagination.Today, Hubble continues to team up with NASA’s new generation of observatories like Webb, TESS, and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to explore these alien worlds in ever greater detail. Together, they’re unraveling what these planets are made of, how they evolve, and whether some might harbor life. As we celebrate 6,000 confirmed exoplanets, we look ahead to the next 6,000 and to the discoveries still waiting beyond our cosmic horizon.For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubbleCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead ProducerVideo Credits:Artist’s Impression of WASP-121bNASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI)Music Credit:\"Winds\" by Frederik Helmut Wiedmann [GMR] via Thousand Notes Music [GMR] and Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 452 }, { "id": 15004, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15004/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-04-21T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is Ready for Launch", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in September 2026. That is nearly eight months ahead of its required launch readiness date of May 2027.In its final years of construction, the observatory underwent rigorous environmental tests designed to prove it can withstand the demanding journey from Earth to space.These environmental tests included blasting the telescope with the intense sound of a rocket launch, vibrating the observatory while enclosed in a protective clean tent, another launch simulation, and placing it inside a thermal vacuum chamber where it was cooled to the extreme operating temperatures of space.Each of these tests proved Roman's worthiness for early flight and is a testament to the hard work from the entire team. || ", "hits": 806 }, { "id": 14997, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14997/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-04-08T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Drone Footage of The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Fully Deployed", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands fully deployed as it will be in space. The solar panels reach their full width of over 14 feet (4.3 meters), and with the Deployable Aperture Cover standing tall, this observatory towers over 42 feet (12.8 meters) high –– taller than any other telescope created at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.This is the first drone footage captured inside a NASA cleanroom, fitting for Goddard's largest telescope. || ", "hits": 159 }, { "id": 14993, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14993/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-04-08T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Working on The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Long Exposure Timelapses", "description": "Building a telescope like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope requires long hours focusing on small regions, repeated with precision day after day. These timelapses capture that slow and steady pace with long-exposure images stitched together to highlight the continuous work behind the scenes.In much the same way, the telescope itself will stitch together vast numbers of exposures into sweeping scientific surveys. By observing millions of stars over time, it will track changes across the cosmos capturing exploding stars, belching black holes, neutron star mergers, and more phenomena as they unfold. || ", "hits": 144 }, { "id": 14948, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14948/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-03-31T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Integrating The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Two Halves", "description": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will begin joining the payload to the spacecraft.The telescope and instruments were mounted to Roman’s instrument carrier and precisely aligned in the largest clean room at Goddard, where the observatory is being assembled. Now, the whole assembly is being attached to the Roman spacecraft, which will deliver the observatory to its orbit and enable it to function once there.In the footage below technicians carefully lift the outer portion of the telescope, called the OSD or Outer Barrel, SASS, Deployable Aperature Cover, and place it over the internal half. Long guard rails keep the two halves in perfect position. The solar panels open shortly after the two havles joined, marking a nearly deployed and fully assembled observatory. || ", "hits": 121 }, { "id": 14969, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14969/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-03-05T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Introducing NASA's Roman Space Telescope", "description": "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 MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_RomanShortOverview3.jpg (1280x720) [222.3 KB] || YTframe_RomanShortOverview3_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.5 KB] || YTframe_RomanShortOverview3_thm.png (80x40) [9.6 KB] || 14969_Roman_Short_Overview_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [109.7 MB] || 14969_Roman_Short_Overview_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [215.6 MB] || 14969_Roman_Short_Overview_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [523.0 MB] || 14969RomanShortOverviewCaptions.en_US.srt [2.1 KB] || 14969RomanShortOverviewCaptions.en_US.vtt [2.0 KB] || 14969_Roman_Short_Overview_ProRes_1920x1080_29.97.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 400 }, { "id": 14980, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14980/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-02-26T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Prototype ComPair-2 Gamma-Ray Detectors Complete Thermal Vacuum Testing", "description": "Prototype gamma-ray detectors for the ComPair-2 mission rests in a thermal vacuum chamber after testing in June 2025 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The ComPair-2 team tested the detectors’ performance at hot and cold temperatures over the course of a week and the overall survivability of the layer itself. Credit: NASA/Sophia RobertsAlt text: A piece of equipment sits inside a chamber in a lab. Image description: A cylindrical metal chamber at the center of the image has its door swung all the way open. Inside are silver-wrapped ComPair-2 detectors attached to many copper-colored wires. The chamber is in a lab with white walls and has tubes, wires, and other pieces of equipment attached. || ComPair2_TVAC-1-small.jpg (4096x2732) [3.2 MB] || ComPair2_TVAC-1.jpg (8192x5464) [30.6 MB] || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 14970, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14970/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2026-02-20T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope Assembly Animation", "description": "This animation shows key systems assembling to form NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It starts with the spacecraft bus and then adds the instrument carrier. Then the Coronagraph Instrument joins, followed by the mirror assembly and the Wide Field Instrument, completing the main half of the observatory. The outer portion, which contains the outer barrel assembly, solar array Sun shield, and deployable aperture cover, slides over the exposed mirror to complete the full observatory. This animation includes a version with a transparent alpha channel. || Roman_Assembly_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [377.3 KB] || Roman_Assembly_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [18.8 KB] || Roman_Assembly_Still_thm.png (80x40) [2.3 KB] || Roman_Asssembly_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [61.6 MB] || Roman_Asssembly_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [308.1 MB] || Roman_Asssembly_ProRes_3840x2160_60.mov (3840x2160) [3.7 GB] || Roman_Asssembly_ProRes4444Alpha_3840x2160_60.mov (3840x2160) [7.1 GB] || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 14967, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14967/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2026-02-20T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Roman Space Telescope Parts and Assembly", "description": "The Roman observatory is slated to launch no later than May 2027, with the team aiming for as early as fall 2026. The mission will revolutionize our understanding of the universe with its deep, crisp, sweeping views of space.More than a thousand technicians and engineers assembled Roman from millions of individual components. Many parts were built and tested simultaneously to save time. Now that the observatory is assembled, it will undergo a spate of testing prior to shipping to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in summer 2026.Learn more at Building Roman. Music credit: “Unseen,” by David Husband [PRS], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || YTframe_RomanAssembly.jpg (1280x720) [151.7 KB] || YTframe_RomanAssembly_searchweb.png (320x180) [55.4 KB] || YTframe_RomanAssembly_thm.png (80x40) [8.3 KB] || 14967_Roman_Assembly_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [138.9 MB] || 14967RomanAssemblyCaptions.en_US.srt [1.9 KB] || 14967RomanAssemblyCaptions.en_US.vtt [1.8 KB] || 14967_Roman_Assembly_4k_Good.mp4 (3840x2160) [290.7 MB] || 14967_Roman_Assembly_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [368.4 MB] || 14967_Roman_Assembly_4k_YT.mp4 (3840x2160) [722.6 MB] || 14967_Roman_Assembly_ProRes_3840x2160_30.mov (3840x2160) [6.1 GB] || ", "hits": 148 }, { "id": 14971, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14971/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2026-02-20T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "2026 Roman Space Telescope 360 Animation", "description": "A 360-degree spin animation of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 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From Hubble’s steadfast watch to Webb’s golden gaze, we have built machines that see the unseen, unraveling the secrets written in starlight.Each telescope is a sentinel in the void, Hubble, Webb, the upcoming Roman, and not too long from now, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, each revealing new chapters of the universe’s story. Together, they form a fellowship of discovery, driven by the minds and hearts of those who dare to look deeper, to ask what else is out there.Narrated by the legendary John Rhys-Davies, this film is a tribute to exploration, to science, and to the boundless curiosity that defines us. The Fellowship of the Telescopes endures, lighting the way toward the next great frontier.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center John Rhys-Davies: Narrator TalentPaul Morris: Producer / EditorRob Andreoli: Camera OperatorJohn Philyaw: Camera OperatorClaire Andreoli: ProducerMusic Credit:\"Hushed Wonders 9\" by Joel S Goodman [ASCAP] via Medley Lane Music [ASCAP] and Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 14960, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14960/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-02-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Final Look at The Roman Space Telescope's Primary Mirror: Beauty Shots", "description": "The Roman Space Telescope is nearly ready for final integration, when the outer and inner halves will be fitted together to form the full observatory. Until this point, the two halves have undergone individual environmental testing. Once united, the observatory will continue environmental testing and verification. || ", "hits": 233 }, { "id": 14961, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14961/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-30T18:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope - Just Before Integration: Beauty Shots", "description": "The Roman Space Telescope team is preparing to join the two halves that will form the full observatory. Currently, Roman consists of the internal section, housing the mirror assembly and science instruments, and the outer portion, which includes the solar panels and deployable aperture cover.In this footage, team members inspect their work and take final looks before the mirror assembly disappears beneath the Outer Barrel Assembly. Once fully integrated, Roman will move on to its final environmental tests. || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 40542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/dark-energy/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2026-01-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Dark Energy", "description": "Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we call the big bang. After this initial expansion, which lasted a fraction of a second, gravity started to slow the universe down. But the cosmos wouldn’t stay this way. Nine billion years after the universe began, its expansion started to speed up, driven by an unknown force that scientists have named dark energy.\n\nBut what exactly is dark energy?\n\nThe short answer is: We don't know. 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These clips all focus on the relationship between the Nancy Grace Roman and James Webb space telescopes: how they are different and how they will work together. These animations may be useful in presentations and other video products. || ", "hits": 532 }, { "id": 14943, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14943/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-20T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Far and Wide: Additional Graphics", "description": "This page houses animation clips from the Far and Wide video series, which may be useful in presentations or other video products. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 14950, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14950/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2026-01-20T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Flying Through Galaxies", "description": "This artist's concept animation imagines flying through the vast web of galaxies that fill the visible universe. || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [814.5 KB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.2 KB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [49.2 MB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [141.8 MB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_4k60_75mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [355.6 MB] || 14950_Galaxies_FlyThrough_ProRes_3840x2160_60.mov (3840x2160) [5.3 GB] || ", "hits": 207 }, { "id": 14937, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14937/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-23T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Roman Space Telescope: Widening Our Gaze", "description": "The NASA Astrophysics fleet of spacecraft has an impressive range of capabilities. What is the next step in exploring the cosmos? The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s upcoming flagship mission, will take Hubble’s resolution and widen its infrared view to more than 100 times the coverage in every single image. Roman is a survey telescope that can peer through the Milky Way’s obscuring dust, and see faint, distant galaxies. Roman’s rigid design allows it to scan large regions of sky very quickly. Hubble would take 1,000 years to observe what Roman can see in one. Roman’s 18 4k x 4k detectors create 300-megapixel images covering an area of sky slightly larger than the full Moon. Roman will also look at the same regions of space repeatedly over time, allowing astronomers to see changes and observe temporary events like supernovae. Roman’s surveys of deep space and the center of our Milky Way galaxy will find thousands of new exoplanets, survey millions of galaxies, help us understand dark matter and dark energy, and learn more about the evolution of the universe. || ", "hits": 325 }, { "id": 14939, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14939/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multi-camera Time-lapse of Roman's Assembly Completion", "description": "NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 14935, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14935/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2025-12-18T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Milky Way Anatomy", "description": "This infographic with artist’s concept views of our Milky Way galaxy highlights its main components: the disk, bulge, stellar halo, and dark matter halo. Scientists have a pretty good idea of the Milky Way’s overall structure, but since we’re nestled inside it, fine details are hard to see. Astronomers have used observations from different telescopes to piece together our galaxy's anatomy, and future observatories like NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will make the picture even clearer. || Milky_Way_Anatomy_Infographic_Simple_Final_print.jpg (1024x512) [118.4 KB] || Milky_Way_Anatomy_Infographic_Simple_Final.jpg (4320x2160) [1.2 MB] || Milky_Way_Anatomy_Infographic_Simple_Final.png (4320x2160) [6.5 MB] || Milky_Way_Anatomy_Infographic_Simple_Final_searchweb.png (320x180) [68.0 KB] || Milky_Way_Anatomy_Infographic_Simple_Final_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || ", "hits": 1914 }, { "id": 14917, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14917/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2025-12-12T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Galactic Plane Survey", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 146 }, { "id": 14931, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14931/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2025-12-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman By The Numbers Infographic", "description": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will survey vast swaths of sky during its five-year primary mission. During that time, scientists expect it to see an incredible number of new object, including stars, galaxies, black holes and planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. This infographic previews some of the discoveries scientists anticipate from Roman's data deluge. || Roman_ByTheNumbers_Infographic_half.jpg (2000x1125) [498.6 KB] || Roman_ByTheNumbers_Infographic_print.jpg (1024x576) [223.6 KB] || Roman_ByTheNumbers_Infographic.png (4000x2250) [2.0 MB] || Roman_ByTheNumbers_Infographic.jpg (4000x2250) [1.0 MB] || Roman_ByTheNumbers_Infographic_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.1 KB] || Roman_ByTheNumbers_Infographic_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 14897, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14897/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-16T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Our Interstellar Medium", "description": "Our Milky Way galaxy is home to more than 100 billion stars that are often separated by trillions of miles. The spaces in between, called the interstellar medium, aren't empty –– they're sprinkled with gas and dust that are both the seeds of new stars and the leftover crumbs from stars long dead. Studying the interstellar medium with observatories like NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will reveal new insight into the galactic dust recycling system.Music Credit: Building Heroes by Enrico Cacace [BMI], Universal Production MusicCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Our_Interstellar_Medium_Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [658.8 KB] || Our_Interstellar_Medium_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.7 KB] || Our_Interstellar_Medium_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || Our_Interstellar_Medium.en_US.srt [1.1 KB] || Our_Interstellar_Medium.en_US.vtt [1.0 KB] || 14897_-_Our_Interstellar_Medium.mp4 (3840x2160) [651.7 MB] || 14897_-_Our_Interstellar_Medium_-_NO_TEXT.mov (3840x2160) [3.7 GB] || ", "hits": 395 }, { "id": 14890, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14890/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-26T11:05:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Deployment Test", "description": "Technicians recently tested two major deployments for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC) and the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS). The DAC will protect Roman’s instruments before launch, then swing open once the telescope is in space. To simulate weightlessness, engineers used a gravity offload system precisely counterbalanced to reduce drag during deployment. The SASS unfurled in true flight-like fashion, with its solar panels swinging into place under powerful spring tension. Each release was marked by the sharp pop of a non-explosive actuator. Both deployments were successful, bringing Roman one step closer to its mission to study dark energy, exoplanets, and the distant universe. To learn more, check out the link in our Roman highlight.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Sophia Roberts: Videographer / ProducerScott Weissinger: Videographer / ProducerPaul Morris: EditorMusic Credit:“History in Motion” by Fred Dubois [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 14878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14878/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-31T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing the Roman Space Telescope Lower Instrument Sun Shade", "description": "Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 40537, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsdbgallery2025goddardsummerfilmfest/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-07-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "2025 Goddard Summer Film Fest", "description": "Hosted by the NASA Goddard Office of Communications is the 16th Annual Summer Film Fest. Immerse yourself in a thrilling exploration of the year’s most exciting missions and topics, such as JWST, Roman Space Telescope, OSIRIS-REx, Parker Solar Probe, global ocean currents, wildfires and beyond.", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 14864, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14864/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-10T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope Solar Panels are Fully Installed", "description": "On June 14 and 16, technicians installed solar panels onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun Shield, these panels will power and shade the observatory, enabling all the mission’s observations and helping keep the instruments cool.The Solar Array Sun Shield is made up of six panels, each covered in solar cells. The two central panels will remain fixed to the outer barrel assembly (the observatory’s outer shell) while the other four will deploy once Roman is in space, swinging up to align with the center panels.In this video, watch how the technicians carefully place each solar panel. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 14861, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14861/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-07T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory Will Search For Life", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 718 }, { "id": 14860, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14860/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-06-30T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble's AI Revolution", "description": "Artificial Intelligence has transformed our world, reshaping everything from healthcare to home cooking. Now, this same technology is revolutionizing how we explore the cosmos, turning vast amounts of space data into meaningful discoveries at unprecedented speeds.As telescopes like the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prepare to collect data in the petabytes, human analysis alone won't suffice. The next great astronomical discoveries will emerge from the powerful partnership between human curiosity and machine intelligence, processing in minutes what would take decades by traditional methods.For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubbleCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Sanchali Pothuru: Lead Producer / EditorPaul Morris: SupportVideo Credit:Cutout Hand Paper On Alpha by Wonder&Render via MotionArraySilhouettes Of People Walking Pack by Cosku via MotionArrayAsteroid Pack by Space Stock Footage via MotionArrayLaptop Blank Screen On Bed In House by Fascinadora via MotionArrayDigital Static Lines Overlay by the7dew via MotionArrayHamburger Holographic Scan by 2ragon via MotionArrayMedical Pack by Gurbuz via MotionArrayHands Down Collage Overlays & BGs by Wonder&Render via MotionArrayDistortion Green Lines 4K Background by Nataliya Bermas via MotionArrayHolographic Man HUD by A Luna Blue via MotionArrayBig Asteroids Floating In Space by FynneFilms via MotionArrayGlitch Coding Background by the7dew via MotionArrayLaptop Blank Screen On Bed In House by Fascinadora via MotionArrayMusic Credit:\"Floating\" by Nicholas Smith [PRS] via Collection Ideale [SACEM] and Universal Production Music\"Silver Soul\" by Nicholas Smith [PRS] via Collection Ideale [SACEM] and Universal Production Music\"Solo Trip\" by Nicholas Smith [PRS] via Collection Ideale [SACEM] and Universal Production Music\"Kinetic World\" by Jay Price [PRS] via Sketch Music Limited [PRS] and Universal Production Music\"Spiritual Engineering\" by Chris Jones [ASCAP] via ZFC Music [SESAC] and Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 14856, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14856/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2025-06-20T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope to Scale with Tyrannosaurus rex", "description": "A comparison of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with a Tyrannosaurus rex. They have the same approximate length and weight.", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 14852, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14852/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-06-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope's Outer Shell Moves to the Thermal Vacuum Chamber", "description": "The outer half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment. This video shows the structure, which consists of the Outer Barrel Assembly, Solar Array Sun Shield, and Deployable Aperture Cover (collectively called OSD), entering the Space Environment Simulator. Technicians removed air from this thermal vacuum chamber and exposed the structure to a wide range of temperatures. || ", "hits": 170 }, { "id": 14800, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14800/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-27T20:56:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Holiday Vertical Video", "description": "This page contains vertically-formatted Astrophysics videos related to holidays or fun projects.", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 14842, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14842/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-05-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Outer Shell Passes Thermal Test - Drone Footage", "description": "The outer portion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently passed a major milestone: thermal cycling. Drone footage captures its emergence from the test facility and return to the clean room. The Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to perform wide-field imaging and surveys of the near-infrared sky. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 5475, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5475/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-05-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "SOS - Change in Night Lights between 2012 and 2023", "description": "This animation of the Earth at night showcases NASA's Black Marble data. The animation begins by showing annual averages of nighttime lights from 2012 to 2023. The lights then fade away to reveal how night lights changed between 2012 and 2023, with regions of more light depicted in purple and regions with less light depicted in orange. ||", "hits": 217 }, { "id": 5477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5477/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-05-16T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "SOS - Day/Night cycle with Blue Marble and Black Marble Nightlights", "description": "This animation shows daylight and nighttime cycles of Earth over a three-day period in 2024 as the planet spins on it’s axis.", "hits": 1100 }, { "id": 14836, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14836/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2025-05-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Systems Infographic", "description": "This infographic shows the two major subsystems that make up NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The subsystems are each undergoing testing prior to being joined together this fall. || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_print.jpg (1024x576) [160.5 KB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_16bit.png (3840x2160) [30.7 MB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_8bit.png (3840x2160) [8.2 MB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.8 KB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_thm.png [6.4 KB] || ", "hits": 121 }, { "id": 14820, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14820/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2025-04-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Core Surveys Infographics", "description": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s three main observing programs, highlighted in this infographic, will enable astronomers to view the universe as never before, revealing billions of cosmic objects strewn across enormous swaths of space-time.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || Roman_CoreSurveys_Infographic_print.jpg (1024x640) [155.3 KB] || Roman_CoreSurveys_Infographic.png (8000x5000) [28.6 MB] || Roman_CoreSurveys_Infographic.jpg (8000x5000) [2.5 MB] || Roman_CoreSurveys_Infographic_Half.jpg (4000x2500) [1.3 MB] || Roman_CoreSurveys_Infographic_searchweb.png (320x180) [72.9 KB] || Roman_CoreSurveys_Infographic_thm.png [6.6 KB] || ", "hits": 263 }, { "id": 40534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/vertical-video/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-04-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Vertical Video", "description": "This gallery collects vertically-formatted videos released by Goddard.", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 14802, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14802/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-28T14:31:59-04:00", "title": "Earth to Space: A National Symphony Orchestra Concert", "description": "Explore the vastness of space with music inspired by the planets, stars, and beyond! In anticipation of the upcoming voyage of Artemis II, the National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the discoveries and beauty of space through music and images produced by NASA. Explore this page to learn more about the visuals used in the Kennedy Center's 2025 Earth to Space Festival NSO Family Concert.", "hits": 127 }, { "id": 14788, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14788/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Vertical Video", "description": "This page collects all the vertically-formatted videos produced for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. ||", "hits": 206 }, { "id": 14780, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14780/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-10T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Scientists Spot Candidate for Speediest Exoplanet System", "description": "This artist's concept visualizes stars near the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Each has a trail indicating its speed –– the longer the trail, the faster it's moving. NASA scientists recently discovered a candidate for a particularly speedy star, visualized near the center of this image, with an orbiting planet. If confirmed, the pair sets a record for fastest known exoplanet system.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) || StarTrails-sm.jpg (1200x675) [337.2 KB] || StarTrails.jpg (4800x2700) [1.9 MB] || star-trails-final-ac.jpg (4800x2700) [4.1 MB] || StarTrails_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.4 KB] || StarTrails.tif (4800x2700) [13.7 MB] || StarTrails_thm.png [11.2 KB] || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 14777, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14777/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-31T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Coming Together : Roman's Internal Pieces are now Installed", "description": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is in the SCIPA configuation or the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly. It includes the spacecraft bus, with all the support systems and electronics, the Wide Field Instrument, the Coronagraph Instrument, and the Optical Telescope Assembly, which is built around the 2.4 meter (7.9 foot) primary mirror. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 14775, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14775/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-29T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Instrument Posters", "description": "NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Instrument will greatly advance our ability to directly image exoplanets, or planets and disks around other stars.Credit: NASA/JPLDigital version of poster with back panelPress version of poster with back panel. FOR PRINT || CGI_Digital_12x18.jpg (1837x2737) [1.1 MB] || CGI_Digital_12x18-1.jpg (3663x5475) [5.7 MB] || CGI_Digital_12x18-1.png (3663x5475) [39.5 MB] || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 14761, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14761/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-29T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Instruments and Mirror attached to the Spacecraft Bus", "description": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now in the formation of SCIPA (Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly). The footage captures the Integrated Payload Assembly, which contains the Mirror assembly, Instrument Carrier, and the two science instruments, the Wide Field Instrument and Coronagraph, along with the hexagonal Spacecraft bus, which houses electronics and the propulsion system. SCIPA includes all the primary internal parts of the telescope. This whole assembly will undergo further testing until integrated with the Outer Barrel assembly, deployable aperture cover, and solar panels. || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 14757, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14757/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Coronagraph Instrument Integration into the Instrument Carrier", "description": "The Coronagraph, one of two science instruments, finds it home in NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Instrument Carrier.Designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Roman Coronagraph will advance scientists’ ability to directly image planets and disks around other stars (exoplanets). Coronagraphs work by blocking light from a bright object, like a star, so that the observer can more easily see a faint object, like a planet. The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, or 100 to 1,000 times better than existing space-based coronagraphs. The Roman Coronagraph will be capable of directly imaging reflected starlight from a planet akin to Jupiter in size, temperature, and distance from its parent star. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 14758, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14758/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Coronagraph Instrument Arrives to Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "The first of two scientific instruments for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived to Goddard Space Flight Center.Designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Roman Coronagraph will advance scientists’ ability to directly image planets and disks around other stars (exoplanets). Coronagraphs work by blocking light from a bright object, like a star, so that the observer can more easily see a faint object, like a planet.The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, or 100 to 1,000 times better than existing space-based coronagraphs. The Roman Coronagraph will be capable of directly imaging reflected starlight from a planet akin to Jupiter in size, temperature, and distance from its parent star. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 14759, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14759/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman's Wide Field Instrument added to the Mirror Assembly", "description": "B-roll footage slowed from 60 frames per second and 30 frames per second of the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) installation. || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_print.jpg (1024x576) [202.4 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_web.png (320x180) [103.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [35.6 MB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_thm.png [6.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.8 GB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 14760, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14760/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mirror Assembly for Roman Space Telescope Arrives to NASA Goddard", "description": "This footage depicts the mirror assembly for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arriving at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. It is transported at night to accommodate the slow-moving specialized transport vehicle called the \"Chariot.\" Within hours of arriving, the lid of the Chariot was removed, and the lower portion was pushed into NASA's largest cleanroom for further unpacking.Designed and built by L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, the assembly incorporates key optics (including the primary mirror) that were made available to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office. The team at L3Harris then reshaped the mirror and built upon the inherited hardware to ensure it would meet Roman's specifications for expansive, sensitive infrared observations.Roman's primary mirror is 7.9 feet (2.4 meters) across. While it's the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope's main mirror, it is less than one-fourth the weight. Roman's mirror weighs only 410 pounds (186 kilograms) thanks to major improvements in technology.The newly resurfaced mirror sports a layer of silver less than 400 nanometers thick – about 200 times thinner than a human hair. The silver coating was specifically chosen for Roman because of how well it reflects near-infrared light. The primary mirror, in concert with other optics, will send light to Roman's two science instruments – the Wide Field Instrument and Coronagraph Instrument. The first is essentially a giant 300-megapixel camera that provides the same sharp resolution as Hubble across nearly 100 times the field of view. Using this instrument, scientists will be able to map the structure and distribution of invisible dark matter, study planetary systems around other stars, and explore how the universe evolved to its present state. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 14746, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14746/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-14T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman SCIPA Hyperwall Time-lapse", "description": "This 3x3-hyperwall-resolution time-lapse video of Roman shows the major integration steps of the key systems to form SCIPA, or the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly. It includes the spacecraft bus, with all the support systems and electronics, the Wide Field Instrument, the Coronagraph Instrument, and the Optical Telescope Assembly, which is built around the 2.4 meter (7.9 foot) primary mirror. This sequence does not have sound and is available as video and frames.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg (5760x3240) [8.6 MB] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [126.8 KB] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still_thm.png [8.3 KB] || 5760x3240_16x9_30p (5760x3240) [17806 Item(s)] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg.dzi [178 bytes] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg_files [4.0 KB] || Roman_SCIPA_Time-lapse_D4.mp4 (5760x3240) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 14749, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14749/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-14T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "OpenUniverse: Simulated Universe Views for Roman", "description": "This video begins with a tiny one-square-degree portion of the full OpenUniverse simulation area (about 70 square degrees, equivalent to an area of sky covered by more than 300 full moons). It spirals in toward a particularly galaxy-dense region, zooming by a factor of 75. This simulation showcases the cosmos as NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could see it, allowing scientists to preview the next generation of cosmic discovery now. Roman’s real future surveys will enable a deep dive into the universe with highly resolved imaging, as demonstrated in this video.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and M. Troxel || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Best.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.9 KB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Good.mp4 (3840x2160) [101.9 MB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [249.3 MB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_ProRes_3840x2160_30.mov (3840x2160) [2.9 GB] || ", "hits": 137 }, { "id": 14755, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14755/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-13T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Astrophysics 2024 Highlights", "description": "2024 was an exciting year for astrophysics. There were fascinating discoveries by missions new and old, new instruments launched, and older instruments getting ready for unprecedented repairs in space. Several upcoming missions continued their march toward completion, with SPHEREx launching in 2025, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launching no later than May of 2027, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory beginning development as a next-generation space telescope. Building off the incredible successes, 2025 will be a great year for astrophysics at NASA.Credit: NASAMusic credit: “Extrapolations,” Andrii Yefymov [BMI], Universal Production MusicYouTubeComplete transcript available. || ASD_2024_highlight_STILL.jpg (1920x1080) [561.4 KB] || ASD_2024_highlight_STILL_searchweb.png (320x180) [111.9 KB] || ASD_2024_Highlights_good.mp4 (1920x1080) [134.2 MB] || ASD_2024_Highlights_best.mp4 (1920x1080) [368.9 MB] || ASD2024HighlightsCaptions.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || ASD2024HighlightsCaptions.en_US.vtt [1.6 KB] || ASD_2024_highlight_STILL_thm.png [8.2 KB] || ASD_2024_Highlights_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || ", "hits": 368 }, { "id": 14707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14707/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "XRISM's Resolve Instrument Gazes into Cygnus X-3", "description": "Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass X-ray binary system consisting of a compact object (likely a black hole) and a Wolf-Rayet star. This artist's concept shows one interpretation of the system. High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy indicates two gas components: a heavy background outflow, or wind, produced by the massive star and a turbulent structure — perhaps a wake carved into the wind — located close to the orbiting companion. As shown here, a black hole's gravity captures some of the wind into an accretion disk around it, and the disk's orbital motion sculpts a path (yellow arc) through the streaming gas. During strong outbursts, the companion emits jets of particles moving near the speed of light, seen here extending above and below the black hole.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterAlt text: Illustration of the Cygnus X-3 systemImage description: On a cloudy reddish background, a bright blue-white circle — a representation of a hot, bright, massive star — sits near the center. Wisps of blue-white border its edges, and many lines of similar color radiate from it. In the foreground at about 4 o’clock lies a yellowish ring with a black hole in its center. From the ring trails a diffuse yellow arc, sweeping from right to left and exiting at the bottom of the illustration. Extending above and below the black hole are two blue-white triangles representing particle jets. || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K.jpg (3840x2160) [505.1 KB] || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K_print.jpg (1024x576) [58.5 KB] || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.7 KB] || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K_web.png (320x180) [64.7 KB] || Cyg_X-3_illustration_4K_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || ", "hits": 219 }, { "id": 14695, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14695/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Outer Barrel Assembly Testing Time Lapse", "description": "Watch a condensed seven-minute version of the time-lapse with labels explaining the steps.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credit: \"Concave Hexagon\" from the album Geometric Shapes. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_OBA_TL.jpg (1280x720) [367.9 KB] || YTframe_OBA_TL_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || YTframe_OBA_TL_thm.png (80x40) [10.3 KB] || 14695_OBA_Timelapse_Medium_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [259.0 MB] || 14695OBATimelapseMedium.en_US.srt [2.6 KB] || 14695OBATimelapseMedium.en_US.vtt [2.5 KB] || 14695_OBA_Timelapse_Medium_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [495.7 MB] || 14695_OBA_Timelapse_Medium_4k_HighQuality.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.3 GB] || 14695_OBA_Timelapse_Medium_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [26.3 GB] || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 14694, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14694/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-03T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Legacy of Light Concluding Video", "description": "This video appeared at the conclusion of the Legacy of Light event on September 25, 2024. It foregrounds the importance of the Hubble, Webb and Roman observatories in enabling the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which could answer one of our most fundamental questions: are we alone?Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Infinite Horizons,\" Dan Thiessen [BMI] Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || NASM_HWO_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [409.5 KB] || NASM_HWO_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [35.4 KB] || NASM_HWO_Still_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || LegacyOfLightConclusionCaptions.en_US.srt [972 bytes] || LegacyOfLightConclusionCaptions.en_US.vtt [934 bytes] || LegacyOfLightConclusion_ProRes_1920x1080_2398.mov (1920x1080) [2.0 GB] || LegacyOfLightConclusion_better.mp4 (1920x1080) [455.3 MB] || LegacyOfLightConclusion_good.mp4 (1920x1080) [204.0 MB] || LegacyOfLightConclusion_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [842.2 MB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 14693, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14693/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Systems, Assemble!", "description": "In September 2024, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope passed a key milestone and was approved for the next stage of construction. Work on the main systems that will make up the final spacecraft is finishing, and the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is ready to begin integration, the process of connecting them together. This video celebrates the effort to reach the final stages of assembly.Music: “The Call,” Torsti Juhani Spoof [BMI] Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_Building_Roman_Main2.jpg (1280x720) [451.7 KB] || YTframe_Building_Roman_Main2_searchweb.png (320x180) [124.6 KB] || YTframe_Building_Roman_Main2_thm.png (80x40) [11.0 KB] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [234.1 MB] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_Better.mp4 (1920x1080) [444.0 MB] || 14693RomanSystemsAssembleCaptions.en_US.srt [491 bytes] || 14693RomanSystemsAssembleCaptions.en_US.vtt [475 bytes] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [1012.1 MB] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_ProRes1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.8 GB] || 14693_RomanSystemsAssemble_Better.hwshow [508 bytes] || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 14677, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14677/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-02T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's TESS Spots Record-breaking Stellar Triplets", "description": "This artist’s concept illustrates how tightly the three stars in the system called TIC 290061484 orbit each other. If they were placed at the center of our solar system, all the stars’ orbits would be contained a space smaller than Mercury’s orbit around the Sun. The sizes of the triplet stars and the Sun are also to scale.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || TESS_Triple_system_beauty_scale.jpg (3840x2160) [775.5 KB] || ", "hits": 390 }, { "id": 14681, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14681/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-01T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Launch Your Creativity with Space Crafts", "description": "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! || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 40525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/habitable-worlds-observatory/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Habitable Worlds Observatory", "description": "The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a large infrared/optical/ultraviolet space telescope recommended by the National Academies' Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s.\n\nHabitable Worlds will be the first space telescope designed specifically to search for signs of life and determine how common life is beyond Earth.\n\nThis future space observatory will study the universe with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution, giving us new insights into the solar system, stars, galaxies, black holes, dark matter and the evolution of cosmic structure.\n\nThe Habitable Worlds Observatory will build on the technological foundations of the Hubble, Webb and Roman Space Telescopes, uniting government, industry, academia, and international partners.", "hits": 234 }, { "id": 14649, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14649/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-09T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope's Deployable Aperture Cover", "description": "Located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Space Environment Simulator is a large, vertical cryopumped test chamber capable of achieving ultra-low pressures and a wide range of thermal conditions. Here engineers are testing the the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Deployable Aperture Cover. The DAC is responsible for keeping light out of the telescope barrel. This sunshade is deployed once in orbit using a soft material attached to support booms and remains in this position throughout the observatory's lifetime. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 14523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14523/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-25T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Understanding Cosmic Dawn", "description": "In this 15-minute \"mini podcast\", NASA astrosphysicist Michelle Thaller talks about the early universe, the cosmic dark ages, cosmic dawn and why these different stages happened.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterComplete transcript available. || CosmicDawnPodcast_ThumbnailFinal.jpg (1920x1080) [178.2 KB] || Cosmic_Dawn_MiniPodcast_FINAL.mp3 [21.8 MB] || CosmicDawnPodcastCaptions.en_US.srt [24.6 KB] || CosmicDawnPodcastCaptions.en_US.vtt [23.3 KB] || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 14618, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14618/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-08T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "New Image to be Released from the James Webb Space Telescope July 12", "description": "Behold the new image! Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb’s Second AnniversaryClick here to find out more about the Jame Webb Space Telescope || Webb_new_image_banner.png (1782x534) [1.4 MB] || Webb_new_image_banner_print.jpg (1024x306) [107.1 KB] || Webb_new_image_banner_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.4 KB] || Webb_new_image_banner_thm.png (80x40) [11.6 KB] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 5313, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5313/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-06-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Change in Night Lights between 2012 and 2023 - EIC Version", "description": "This global, flat map view of night lights data begins with a time series depicting annual averages from 2012 to 2023. The lights then fade away to reveal night lights change between 2012 and 2023, with regions of more light depicted in purple and regions with less light depicted in orange. The sequence then repeats with pop-out, zoomed-in views of India, Ukraine, Western Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean region. || nightlights_flat_series_and_change_wZooms_13_EIC.02599_print.jpg (1024x288) [62.0 KB] || nightlights_flat_series_and_change_wZooms_13_EIC.02599_searchweb.png (320x180) [49.9 KB] || nightlights_flat_series_and_change_wZooms_13_EIC.02599_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || nightlights_2012-2023_change_flat_eic [0 Item(s)] || nightlights_flat_series_and_change_wZooms_13_EIC_2160p30_h265.mp4 (7680x2160) [32.7 MB] || nightlights_flat_series_and_change_wZooms_13_EIC_prores.mov (7680x2160) [4.0 GB] || ", "hits": 1018 }, { "id": 14604, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14604/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers", "description": "This graphic highlights part of a new simulation of what NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could see when it launches by May 2027. The background spans about 0.11 square degrees (roughly equivalent to half of the area of sky covered by a full Moon), representing less than half the area Roman will see in a single snapshot. The inset zooms in to a region 300 times smaller, showcasing a swath of brilliant synthetic galaxies at Roman’s full resolution. Having such a realistic simulation helps scientists study the physics behind cosmic images –– both synthetic ones like these and future real ones. Researchers will use the observations for many types of science, including testing our understanding of the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe.Credit: C. Hirata and K. Cao (OSU) and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || Roman_Simulation_Popout_2k_deg.jpg (2048x2048) [979.2 KB] || ", "hits": 84 }, { "id": 5276, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5276/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-05-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Change in Night Lights between 2012 and 2023", "description": "This global, flat map view of night lights data begins with a time series depicting annual averages from 2012 to 2023. The lights then fade away to reveal night lights change between 2012 and 2023, with regions of more light depicted in purple and regions with less light depicted in orange. The sequence then repeats with two pop-out, zoomed-in views of India and Ukraine.", "hits": 1282 }, { "id": 14524, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14524/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2024-05-07T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Primordial Black Holes", "description": "This artist's concept takes a fanciful approach to imagining small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them visible here.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_1080.jpg (1920x1080) [275.1 KB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k_print.jpg (1024x576) [51.1 KB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k.jpg (3840x2160) [2.5 MB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k.png (3840x2160) [7.3 MB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k_searchweb.png (320x180) [61.5 KB] || Primordial_Black_Hole_Still_4k_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || ", "hits": 1298 }, { "id": 14575, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14575/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-26T13:30:00-04:00", "title": "Moving Roman - Propulsion", "description": "Moving Roman: Propulsion. Fuel is a finite resource for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Watch this video to learn more about how the tanks for propellent are installed and why they are an essential part of the mission.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Music Credits: Univeral Production Music: \"Black Nebula\" by Thomas Daniel Bellingham\"Maelstrom Dream\" by Lucie Rose\"Evolution of Life\" by David Stephen Goldsmith\"Maximist\" by Michael Blainey\"Greatness Takes Time\" by Beth Perry and Chris Doney\"Asthma inhaler\" by natty23\"Compressed Air\" by thompsonmanWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [979.8 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [120.8 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [8.2 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [727.4 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-4k.webm (3840x2160) [78.9 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion.en_US.srt [4.4 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion.en_US.vtt [4.2 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [720.5 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.4 GB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [16.6 GB] || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 14573, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14573/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Reaction Wheel and Thruster Animations", "description": "Beauty pass of Roman, coming over the top of the solar panels.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab || RST_Beauty_S1_4K_60_ProRes.00458_print.jpg (1024x576) [164.9 KB] || RST_Beauty_S1_1080.mp4 [19.0 MB] || RST_Beauty_S1_4K_60.mp4 [92.2 MB] || RST_Beauty_S1_4K_60_ProRes.webm [10.4 MB] || RST_Beauty_S1_4K_60_ProRes.mov [2.0 GB] || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 14525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14525/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moving Roman - Reaction Wheels", "description": "Moving Roman: Reaction Wheels. Watch this video to learn more about how reaction wheels work and how they will be an essential part of pointing the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Music credit: \"Breaking the Code\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Moving_Roman_Reaction_Wheels_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [613.0 KB] || Moving_Roman_Reaction_Wheels_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.7 KB] || Moving_Roman_Reaction_Wheels_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Good.webm (1920x1080) [23.2 MB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [153.7 MB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [531.5 MB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Captions.en_US.srt [4.7 KB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || 14525_MovingRoman_ReactionWheels_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.7 GB] || ", "hits": 309 }, { "id": 14560, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14560/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-26T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Propulsion System - Timelapses", "description": "The construction of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is fully underway now that the propulsion system is installed into the spacecraft bus. This video shows activity in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center cleanroom, where technicians position the hexagonal spacecraft bus on the work platform called the Pantheon. The four fuel tanks on their deck are placed onto a specialized jack and lifted carefully into the spacecraft bus. This whole system is built to supply the tiny thrusters hidden by red caps on the propulsion tank system. The tanks supply hydrazine fuel to the thrusters. The observatory uses the thrusters to maneuver into the correct orbit after launch and make large movements once operational. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 14521, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14521/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Using Infrared to Survey Our Galaxy’s Far Side", "description": "Observatories with smaller views of space have provided exquisite images of other galaxies, revealing complex structures. But studying our own galaxy’s anatomy is surprisingly difficult. The plane of the Milky Way covers such a large area on the sky that studying it in detail can take a very long time. Astronomers also must peer through thick dust that obscures distant starlight. Infrared light can pass through that dust and is a key tool for learning about the far side of our galaxy.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Time Shift Equalibrium\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || GalacticPlaneIR_Split_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [430.6 KB] || GalacticPlaneIR_Split_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.4 KB] || GalacticPlaneIR_Split_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || 14521_Galactic_Plane_Infrared_good.mp4 (1920x1080) [51.0 MB] || 14521_GalacticPlaneIR_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.0 KB] || 14521_GalacticPlaneIR_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.0 KB] || 14521_Galactic_Plane_Infrared_ProRes_1920x1080_30.mov (1920x1080) [923.1 MB] || 14521_Galactic_Plane_Infrared_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [106.4 MB] || ", "hits": 167 }, { "id": 14492, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14492/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-05T08:50:00-05:00", "title": "XRISM Reveals Its First Look at X-ray Cosmos", "description": "XRISM’s Resolve instrument captured data from supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud to create the most detailed X-ray spectrum of the object ever made. The spectrum reveals peaks associated with silicon, sulfur, argon, calcium, and iron. Inset at right is an image of N132D captured by XRISM’s Xtend instrument.Credit: JAXA/NASA/XRISM Resolve and Xtend || Resolve_N132D_Spectrum.jpg (3840x2395) [1.0 MB] || Resolve_N132D_Spectrum_searchweb.png (320x180) [45.7 KB] || Resolve_N132D_Spectrum_thm.png (80x40) [4.7 KB] || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 14491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Hardware Highlights", "description": "This video, covering the second half of 2025, opens with a person entering NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s largest clean room, the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility. The room is a class 10,000 clean room with over one million cubic feet of space.The outside half of Roman, called OSD, contains the solar panels and protective layers. The Deployable Aperture Cover, which protects the mirrors during launch and then unfolds to help shield them from sunlight does a test deployment. During this test, lines connect to it and pull upward to negate Earth’s gravitational forces, which Roman will not experience in space. Then the Solar Array Sun Shield panels deploy. There are four panels that move. They fold against the spacecraft to fit inside the rocket fairing and then deploy in space to make a large flat plane that both collects light to generate electricity and helps keep the rest of Roman cool.In preparation for additional testing, technicians put a clean tent over OSD and transport it out of the clean room. They push it into the acoustic test chamber where a six-foot-tall horn projects up to 150-decibel sound at varying frequencies. The other tests are on two vibration tables that shake Roman along all three axes: up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Engineers attach hundreds of sensors and run tests of increasing intensity. During and after each test, they carefully study the data to make sure that Roman is behaving as they anticipated.While these tests occur, Roman’s inside half, containing the mirrors, instruments and support equipment, move into Goddard’s largest thermal vacuum chamber, the SES (Space Environment Simulator). This 40-foot-tall chamber can simulate the vacuum of space and the wide temperature range that Roman will experience there: from -310° Fahrenheit (-190° C) to 302° Fahrenheit (150° C). The move to the chamber happens without a clean tent, so the entire path was cleaned, and all the workers dress in full clean-room garb to ensure that no dirt contaminates the sensitive parts of the spacecraft. Once the two layers of doors are sealed, Roman spends 72 days inside running through tests at various temperatures and with equipment turned on to ensure that it works at low temperature in a vacuum. A special array installed above the mirror projects light that engineers use to test the optics and sensors.After leaving the SES chamber and returning to the SSDIF, Roman’s primary and secondary mirrors are carefully cleaned and inspected. It is a balance to get the mirrors as clean as possible while not cleaning too aggressively and damaging the delicate surfaces. The mirrors are cleaned both horizontally with a gentle vacuum cleaner and vertically with brushes. After this cleaning, every inch is visually inspected and photographed to record the exact optical characteristics. This was the last time the primary mirror would be accessible.Finally, in late November, Roman’s two halves are joined together to form the complete observatory. The process takes the better part of a day. Two guide poles are installed on the inside half to help direct OSD down onto it. At various times, the clearances between the two halves are only a few inches. With the observatory complete, it begins preparing for another round of deployments and testing.Music credit: “Our Journey Begins,” Dan Thiessen [BMI], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_Roman_Hardware_Highlights_SummerFall2025_3.jpg (1280x720) [473.7 KB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_10mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [185.0 MB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_25mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [452.7 MB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [880.2 MB] || RomanHHLate2025Captions.en_US.srt [588 bytes] || RomanHHLate2025Captions.en_US.vtt [570 bytes] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.5 GB] || ", "hits": 136 }, { "id": 14460, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14460/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-16T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Wide Field Instrument Fully Integrated at Ball Aerospace", "description": "Animated GIF showing the actual Wide Field Instrument wrapped in protective material and transitioning to a computer rendering of the instrument showing some of the interior detail. The focal plane assembly, which contains Roman's 18 detectors, is highlighted.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Ball Aerospace || WFI_X-ray_V2.gif (547x800) [4.0 MB] || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 14461, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14461/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-16T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Primary Mirror Completed at L3Harris", "description": "Short animated GIF transitioning from a photograph of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope primary mirror in a clean room to a computer model of the spacecraft showing how the mirror is positioned within the spacecraft.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/L3 Harris || Mirror_overlay_.gif (800x450) [2.7 MB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 14456, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14456/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-14T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "High Latitude Time-Domain Survey Tiling Pattern", "description": "This animation shows a possible layout of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s High Latitude Time-Domain Survey tiling pattern. The observing program will be designed by a community process, but it is expected to cover five square degrees – a region of the sky as large as 25 full moons – and pierce far into space, back to when the universe was about 500 million years old, less than 4 percent of its current age of 13.8 billion years. || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_Final_print.jpg (1024x576) [70.7 KB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_Final.jpg (3840x2160) [1.1 MB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_Final_searchweb.png (320x180) [36.1 KB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_Final_thm.png (80x40) [3.0 KB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [30.2 MB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_1080.webm (1920x1080) [3.8 MB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_4k_compressed.mp4 (3840x2160) [19.6 MB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [74.9 MB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_Final.jpg.dzi (3840x2160) [178 bytes] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_Final.jpg_files (1x1) [4.0 KB] || Roman_HLTDS_Tiling_ProRes_3840x2160_5994.mov (3840x2160) [3.0 GB] || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 14451, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14451/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Time Domain Astronomy Graphics", "description": "Almost all observations of the universe come by collecting light in various wavelengths. This light can show variations in brightness, reveal structure in cosmic objects, and contain huge amounts of information in how its wavelengths are distributed across a spectrum. A fourth component is time. Space isn’t static, and recording data through a given duration, called Time Domain Astronomy, tracks how details of an object like brightness, spectrum, location and structure change. An object can vary, it can move, or it can do both. || Astronomy_Axis_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.00500_print.jpg (1024x576) [124.8 KB] || Astronomy_Axis_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [40.3 MB] || Astronomy_Axis_1080.webm (1920x1080) [3.9 MB] || Astronomy_Axis_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [2.1 GB] || Astronomy_Axis_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [60.2 MB] || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 14452, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14452/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman's Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey Graphics", "description": "For the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey, Roman will aim its expansive view at the center of our galaxy and observe a two-square-degree region in infrared wavelengths that cut through the obscuring dust to reveal millions of stars. || Galactic_Bulge_Survey_Intro_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.00177_print.jpg (1024x576) [78.6 KB] || Galactic_Bulge_Survey_Intro_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.00177_searchweb.png (320x180) [59.3 KB] || Galactic_Bulge_Survey_Intro_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.00177_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || Galactic_Bulge_Survey_Intro_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [25.1 MB] || Galactic_Bulge_Survey_Intro_1080.webm (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || Galactic_Bulge_Survey_Intro_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [33.3 MB] || Galactic_Bulge_Survey_Intro_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 170 }, { "id": 14438, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14438/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-24T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Why NASA's Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way's Flickering Lights", "description": "Watch this video to learn about time-domain astronomy and how time will be a key element in the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's galactic bulge survey.Music: \"Elapsing Time\" and \"Beyond Truth\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Roman_TDA-GBS_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [716.0 KB] || Roman_TDA-GBS_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [206.4 KB] || Roman_TDA-GBS_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.5 KB] || Roman_TDA-GBS_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || 14438_Roman_TimeDomain_GalacticBulgeSurvey_Sub100.mp4 (1920x1080) [91.9 MB] || 14438_Roman_TimeDomain_GalacticBulgeSurvey_Good.webm (1920x1080) [32.2 MB] || 14438_Roman_TimeDomain_GalacticBulgeSurvey_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [215.7 MB] || 14438_Roman_TimeDomain_GalacticBulgeSurvey_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [744.2 MB] || 14438_Roman_TimeDomain_GalacticBulgeSurvey_Captions.en_US.srt [6.0 KB] || 14438_Roman_TimeDomain_GalacticBulgeSurvey_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [4.0 GB] || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 14437, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14437/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Partner Maps", "description": "This world map of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope partner institutes shows the international effort to realize this mission. Dish icons represent ground stations that will send and recieve data to the spacecraft once it is on orbit.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterThe Australia inset of this map was originally created by Lokal_Profil and sourced from Wikimedia Commons. || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_10k.jpg (10000x5000) [6.2 MB] || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_10k.png (10000x5000) [12.6 MB] || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_5k.jpg (5000x2500) [2.4 MB] || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_5k.png (5000x2500) [6.0 MB] || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_5k_print.jpg (1024x512) [196.1 KB] || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_5k_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.6 KB] || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_5k_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_10k.png.dzi [179 bytes] || Roman_World_Partner_Map_Aug24_10k.png_files [4.0 KB] || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 14414, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14414/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-11T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Paper Model", "description": "Building paper models of spacecraft is a fun, interactive way to learn more about NASA's missions. Watch this video to see how NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope paper model comes together, then try making your own. (If you like this project, you can explore making models of other NASA spacecraft here: https://go.nasa.gov/papermodels.)Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Origami TreeMusic: \"Digital Dreamscape\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Paper_Roman_Wide_1.jpg (1920x1080) [489.0 KB] || Paper_Roman_Wide_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [72.0 KB] || Paper_Roman_Wide_1_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || Roman_Paper_Model_Main_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [86.9 MB] || Roman_Paper_Model_Main_Good.webm (1920x1080) [17.9 MB] || Roman_Paper_Model_Main_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [414.0 MB] || Roman_Paper_Model_Main_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || Roman_Paper_Model_Main_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.7 KB] || Roman_Paper_Model_Main_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.2 GB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 14422, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14422/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Instrument Carrier Arrives", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Instrument Carrier arrives at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The workers remove the grid-like structure from the truck container that brought it and move it into a clean tent. Once there, engineers remove the protective wrapping and inspect the carbon fiber struts. The Instrument Carrier sits between the primary mirror and spacecraft bus and will hold Roman's Wide Field Instrument and Coronagraph technology demonstration.Music: \"Knowledge and Process\" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || Roman_Instrument_Carrier.jpg (1849x1004) [426.6 KB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.1 KB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_thm.png (80x40) [10.6 KB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Good.webm (1920x1080) [13.2 MB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [105.1 MB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [257.6 MB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Captions.en_US.srt [894 bytes] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Captions.en_US.vtt [907 bytes] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 14409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14409/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-09-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman High-Gain Antenna Dish Integration", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s high-gain antenna system has been integrated onto the spacecraft’s communications panel. The almost-6-foot dish is integral to Roman’s communications process; once Roman is launched, the dish will “beam down” data to ground systems across the globe.Music: \"Chasing Rainbows\" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [943.8 KB] || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [107.9 KB] || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || HGA_Integration_1080.webm (1920x1080) [6.8 MB] || HGA_Integration_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [122.5 MB] || HGA_Integration_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [897.2 MB] || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 40518, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-power-playlist-astrophysics-focus/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2023-08-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Power Playlist - Astrophysics Focus", "description": "This is a collection of our most powerful, newsworthy, and frequently used Hyperwall-ready visualizations, along with several that haven't gotten the attention they deserve. They're especially great for more general or top-level science talks, or to \"set the scene\" before a deep dive into a more focused subject or dataset. We've tried to cover the subject areas our speakers focus on most. \n\nIf you're not seeing what you're looking for, there is a huge library of visualizations more localized or specialized in subject - please use the Search function above, and filter \"Result type\" for \"Hyperwall Visual.\"\n\n If you'd like to use one of these visualizations in your Hyperwall presentation, we'll need to know which element on which page. On the visualization's web page, below the visual you'd like to use, you'll see a Link icon next to the Download button. All we need is for you to click on that icon and include that link in your presentation Powerpoint/Keynote or visualization list. Additionally, please check our Hyperwall How-To Guide for tips on designing your Hyperwall presentation, file specifications, and Powerpoint/Keynote templates.", "hits": 225 }, { "id": 14404, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14404/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-23T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing the Roman Space Telescope's Nervous System", "description": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another.The wire harness is so intricate that it was first built on a mock-up structure. The video shows it lifted from that first structure, using a custom-built basket called the harness transfer tool and placed into the primary structure that will fly with the observatory.Now, engineers will weave the harness through the flight structure in Goddard’s big clean room. This ongoing process will continue until most of the spacecraft components are assembled. In the meantime, the Goddard team will soon begin installing electronics boxes that will eventually provide power via the harness to all the spacecraft’s science instruments. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 14380, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14380/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-07-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Icy Earth-mass Rogue Planet", "description": "This artist’s concept shows an ice-encrusted, Earth-mass rogue planet drifting through space alone.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center || Icy_Rogue_Planet_Final.jpg (1920x1080) [518.5 KB] || Icy_Rogue_Planet_Final_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.5 KB] || Icy_Rogue_Planet_Final_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || ", "hits": 250 }, { "id": 14375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14375/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2023-06-27T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up To Investigate Dark Energy", "description": "Euclid (left) is a medium-class ESA mission. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (right) is an upcoming NASA flagship mission. Both will study the history of the universe and bring new insight to the mystery of dark energy.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; ESA/ATG medialab || Euclid-Roman_Graphic_Final.jpg (1920x1080) [476.1 KB] || Euclid-Roman_Graphic_Final_searchweb.png (320x180) [101.4 KB] || Euclid-Roman_Graphic_Final_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || ", "hits": 87 }, { "id": 14359, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14359/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-06-02T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Beauty Pass Animation 2023", "description": "\"Beauty pass\" animation of the Roman Space Telescope spacecraft. This version is accurate as of spring 2023 and has correct thermal blanketing coloration and placement. || Roman_Beauty1_2023_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [153.0 KB] || Roman_Beauty1_2023_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.7 MB] || Roman_Beauty1_2023_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [56.8 KB] || Roman_Beauty1_2023_Still_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || RSTPrimary_2023_BP1_4k_30fps_h264.mp4 (3840x2160) [51.6 MB] || RSTPrimary_2023_BP1_ProRes_3840x2160_30fps.mov (3840x2160) [2.7 GB] || RSTPrimary_BP_4k_30fps_HQ.mp4 (3840x2160) [257.8 MB] || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 14360, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14360/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-06-02T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 360 2023", "description": "Animated 3D model of the Roman Space Telescope spacecraft rotated through 360 degrees. The ProRes copy has a transparent alpha channel. || Roman_2023_360_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.1 MB] || Roman_2023_360_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [23.9 KB] || Roman_2023_360_Still_thm.png (80x40) [2.8 KB] || Roman_2023_360_ProRes_3840x2160_Alpha.mov (3840x2160) [4.9 GB] || Roman_2023_360_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [47.6 MB] || Roman_2023_360_4k_HQ.mp4 (3840x2160) [238.5 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [128.0 KB] || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 14344, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14344/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-05-05T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Primary Structure - B-Roll Footage", "description": "The primary structure that will serve as the “bones” of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into the big clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The spacecraft bus, Roman’s primary support element, will now be built upon this skeletal framework. Roman will help unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and explore many topics in infrared astrophysics.It’s partly made up of a central cylinder with a top deck that will support most of the observatory. Each of its six sides has a compartment that will house key electronics and other hardware needed to operate the observatory. Major spacecraft elements, such as its power, attitude control and propulsion systems, will be housed within the primary structure. The high-gain antenna will be installed beneath it, and the lowermost part of the primary structure will attach the spacecraft to the rocket during launch.The structure is mainly made of a special grade of aluminum that’s strong, yet lightweight. To reduce the weight even further, most of its exterior is partly hollowed out in a triangular pattern called an isogrid. Even though it’s large – about 14 feet (4.3 meters) long, 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide, and 6.5 feet (2 meters) tall – the primary structure weighs just 3,600 pounds (1,600 kilograms). || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 14342, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14342/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-05-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Central Cylinder Enters the Cleanroom", "description": "Music Credits: By Design - Ben BeinyMicroworld - Benji Paul Merrison and Will SlaterComplete transcript available.