Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts
Summary
The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope, costing $4.3 billion and named after NASA's first chief of astronomy, is set to launch from Florida. It will travel about one million miles away to study planets outside our solar system and help understand the universe alongside the Hubble and James Webb telescopes.Key Facts
- The Roman telescope survived budget cuts proposed by President Trump.
- It will launch from Kennedy Space Center at 7:26 am ET.
- The telescope has a 300-megapixel infrared camera with a wide field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's.
- It includes a coronagraph to block star glare and better image planets around stars.
- Its destination is Lagrange point 2, a stable spot about one million miles from Earth.
- Roman will support and complement Hubble and Webb but is not a direct replacement.
- NASA expects the first images around early 2027 after setup and testing.
- The mission aims to study dark matter, dark energy, exoplanets, and other cosmic phenomena.
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