Who Was Nancy Grace Roman? Namesake of New NASA Telescope

Roman's efforts laid the groundwork for what became the Hubble Space Telescope, earning her the nickname "Mother of Hubble."

Nancy Grace Roman telescope launches to ‘kick the door down to the universe’  The Times

Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.

The telescope is designed to survey the universe at unprecedented speed. Its field of view is more than 100 times wider than that of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Nasa's new Roman Space Telescope has launched on a mission to explore distant planets. This observatory will search for dark matter and dark energy across the universe. It is expected to discover thousands of new planets and billions of galaxies. The telescope's wide field of view surpasses Hubble's capabilities sig

Nancy Grace Roman Thought Beyond A Single Mission. We Should Too.  Forbes

If all goes to plan, at 7:26 a.m. Sunday morning, a new space telescope will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket, ready to reveal new wonders about our universe. Here are some things scientists hope to unravel with this new telescope.

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NASA's new telescope could change the way we see space. With a wide-field camera that will reveal an area up to 200 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope, and an orbit a million miles from Earth, the Nancy Grace Roman telescope is expected to find tens of thousands of unknown exoplanets.