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Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. This observatory will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.
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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS): Producer/editor
Barb Mattson (University of Maryland College Park): Narrator
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS): Writer
Ashley Balzer (eMITS): Science Writer
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Officer
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (eMITS): Animator
Michael Lentz (eMITS): Animator
Krystofer Kim (eMITS): Animator
Jonathan North (eMITS): Animator
Dominic Benford (NASA/HQ): Science Advisor
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Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. This observatory will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.
For a version of this video with audio descriptions: youtu.be/BYWi_yX0GTs
Music credit: “Fire,” by Frederick Helmut Wiedmann [GMR], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS): Producer/editor
Barb Mattson (University of Maryland College Park): Narrator
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS): Writer
Ashley Balzer (eMITS): Science Writer
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Officer
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (eMITS): Animator
Michael Lentz (eMITS): Animator
Krystofer Kim (eMITS): Animator
Jonathan North (eMITS): Animator
Dominic Benford (NASA/HQ): Science Advisor
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14969. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14969. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
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