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Aaron Vigil Helps Give SASS to Roman Space Telescope

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The stars in the big Wyoming skies inspired Aaron Vigil as a child to dream big. Today, he’s a mechanical…

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils

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The universe is a dynamic, ever-changing place where galaxies are dancing, merging together, and shifting appearance. Unfortunately, because these changes…

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Solar Panels for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Key Tests

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield has successfully completed recent tests, signaling that the assembly is…

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A spiral galaxy with three prominent arms wrapping around it. The galaxy holds plenty of extra gas and dark dust between the arms. There are shining blue points throughout the arms and some patches of gas out beyond the galaxy’s edge, where stars are forming. The center of the galaxy also shines brightly. It is on a dark background where some small orange dots mark distant galaxies.

NASA Selects 5 New Roman Technology Fellows in Astrophysics

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NASA has awarded Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships (RTF) to five early-career researchers in astrophysics for the class of 2023. …

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Primary Instrument for Roman Space Telescope Arrives at NASA Goddard

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The primary instrument for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a sophisticated camera that will survey the cosmos from…

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NASA Tests Deployment of Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Visor’

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The “visor” for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed several environmental tests simulating the conditions it will experience…

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K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.

How NASA Citizen Science Fuels Future Exoplanet Research

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NASA’s upcoming flagship astrophysics missions, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Habitable Worlds Observatory, will study planets outside…

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How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Illuminate Cosmic Dawn

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Today, enormous stretches of space are crystal clear, but that wasn’t always the case. During its infancy, the universe was…

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Rebekah Hounsell: Tracking Cosmic Light to Untangle the Universe’s Darkest Mysteries

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Rebekah Hounsell is an assistant research scientist working on ways to optimize and build infrastructure for future observations made by…

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