Nasa launches new telescope to map cosmos
SPACEX launches Roman on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.—X/SpaceX • Roman designed to shed light on ‘unsolved mysteries’ including dark matter and dark energy • Also aims to discover thousands of exoplanets and supernovae • With its infrared vision, telescope will be able to detect light emitted by celestial objects billions of years ago WASHINGTON: Nasa…
NASA has successfully launched its new flagship space telescope, the Roman Space Telescope, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday. The $4 billion observatory, named after pioneering US astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, is set to embark on a multi-year mission to map the cosmos and uncover some of the universe's greatest mysteries.
Standing 12 meters tall, the Roman Space Telescope boasts a panoramic view more than 100 times larger than Hubble's, allowing it to survey vast swaths of the sky from a distance of 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. The telescope's infrared vision will enable it to detect light emitted by celestial objects billions of years ago, providing scientists with a glimpse into the universe's distant past and helping them better understand dark matter and dark energy, which together make up about 95% of the universe.
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