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What are dark matter and dark energy?
How common are planetary
arrangements like our own?
And how many planets in our galaxy
have the potential to harbor life?
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help answer these fundamental questions. Each image from its Wide Field Instrument will have the depth and clarity of Hubble's best, but capture a sky area 100 times larger.
The Roman Space Telescope will take the lead in exploring dark energy and dark matter. We only know they exist by their effects on observable matter, yet these two mysterious components make up 95% of the universe.
The Roman Space Telescope’s powerful 2.4-meter mirror, and enormous field of view, will also help us in the search for planets beyond our solar system, or exoplanets. To deepen its study of exoplanets, the Roman Space Telescope will house a beyond state-of-the-art coronagraph that will directly image and analyze Neptune-sized planets in orbits slightly larger than Earth's — a dramatic improvement over current capabilities.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help us answer many of the biggest cosmic questions. Roman will be an indispensable part of space science during the next decade and beyond.
[NASA]