Raumfahrt: Nasa schickt neues Infrarot-Teleskop ins All
Das neue Gerät soll 1.000 Mal schneller arbeiten als das in die Jahre gekommene Hubble-Teleskop. Wissenschaftler versprechen sich einen Blick in bisher verborgene Bereiche des Universums.
NASA has launched a new space telescope, the "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope", into orbit. Named after one of the agency's early female leaders, the telescope blasted off aboard a SpaceX "Falcon Heavy" rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. President Donald Trump congratulated the team during a brief interjection at a NASA press conference, praising the telescope's "beautiful" TV broadcast and declaring himself "the hottest guy in space".
The Roman Space Telescope, roughly the size of a bus, will orbit about 1.6 million kilometers from Earth, where it will reach its observing point in about three months. NASA claims its field of view is more than 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope, which has continued to provide stunning images of celestial bodies for 36 years.
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