NASA Scientists Preview Roman Space Telescope Before Aug. 30 Falcon Heavy Launch

1 articles · Updated · BYU-Idaho · Aug 21

Grand Teton National Park is hosting NASA astrophysicists this weekend for public talks and telescope viewing tied to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Aug. 30 launch from Florida.
Three evening talks are scheduled—James Rhoads on Friday, Sangeeta Malhotra on Saturday and Ami Choi on Sunday—while Roman team members are also meeting visitors at park centers from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The outreach campaign is meant to explain Roman’s mission: studying dark matter and dark energy, searching for exoplanets and probing the universe’s early “cosmic dawn” with imaging and spectroscopy.
Roman’s planned primary mission is 5 years, far shorter than Hubble’s original 15-year design life, though Hubble remains in operation 36 years after its 1990 launch.

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