NASA's new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here's why it's so cool.
NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a new instrument designed to study dark energy and the evolution of the universe. It is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on August 30.
An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. (NASA) It's been more than 36 years since NASA sent its Hubble Space Telescope into low-Earth orbit, and nearly five years since the agency's James Webb Space Telescope started to circle the sun. Now a new, even more advanced hunk of astronomical hardware is set to follow its two pioneering predecessors into the cosmos: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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