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Roman Telescope Launches Cosmic Quest | US News

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope just blasted off on a Falcon Heavy, heading to a million-mile outpost to join the Webb Telescope — and it’s poised to revolutionize astronomy. With a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble’s, this $4.3 billion observatory will map billions of galaxies, spot thousands of supernovae, and discover tens of thousands of exoplanets — all in record time. What takes Hubble a century, Roman can do in a month. Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman, the telescope uses a repurposed spy satellite mirror and features groundbreaking tech to directly…

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