WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.634 [Dramatic music throughout] 2 00:00:02.002 --> 00:00:04.471 What are dark matter and dark energy? 3 00:00:04.471 --> 00:00:07.640 How common are planetary arrangements like our own? 4 00:00:08.475 --> 00:00:12.078 And how many planets in our galaxy have the potential to harbor life? 5 00:00:13.380 --> 00:00:15.915 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 6 00:00:15.915 --> 00:00:18.485 will help answer these fundamental questions. 7 00:00:19.085 --> 00:00:22.889 Each image from its Wide Field Instrument will have the depth and clarity 8 00:00:22.889 --> 00:00:27.460 of Hubble's best, but capture a sky area 100 times larger. 9 00:00:28.862 --> 00:00:31.331 The Roman Space Telescope will take the lead 10 00:00:31.331 --> 00:00:34.334 in exploring dark energy and dark matter. 11 00:00:34.601 --> 00:00:38.405 We only know they exist by their effects on observable matter, 12 00:00:38.638 --> 00:00:43.176 yet these two mysterious components make up 95% of the universe. 13 00:00:44.377 --> 00:00:48.615 The Roman Space Telescope’s powerful 2.4-meter mirror, 14 00:00:48.648 --> 00:00:52.719 and enormous field of view, will also help us in the search for planets 15 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.722 beyond our solar system, or exoplanets. 16 00:00:56.189 --> 00:01:00.627 To deepen its study of exoplanets, the Roman Space Telescope will house 17 00:01:00.627 --> 00:01:05.498 a beyond state-of-the-art coronagraph that will directly image and analyze 18 00:01:05.498 --> 00:01:09.469 Neptune-sized planets in orbits slightly larger than Earth's — 19 00:01:09.869 --> 00:01:12.872 a dramatic improvement over current capabilities. 20 00:01:14.774 --> 00:01:17.277 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 21 00:01:17.277 --> 00:01:20.547 will help us answer many of the biggest cosmic questions. 22 00:01:21.948 --> 00:01:24.951 Roman will be an indispensable part of space science 23 00:01:25.085 --> 00:01:27.287 during the next decade and beyond. 24 00:01:27.287 --> 00:01:28.922 [NASA]