Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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Nasa’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to begin its journey to a new home in deep space on August 30.

About Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

• It is NASA’s next flagship orbital observatory.
• It is designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.
  • Scientists by using this telescope will focus on three main topic areas: dark energy, exoplanets, and dark matter.
• It will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
• It will orbit around a special place in space called the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2. 
• Objectives: It will monitor hundreds of millions of stars in search of tell-tale flickers that betray the presence of planets, distant stars, small icy objects that haunt the outskirts of our solar system and isolated black holes.

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Instruments of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

• Wide Field Instrument
  • It is a 300–megapixel infrared camera.
  • It will have a field of view that is 100 times greater than the Hubble infrared instrument, capturing more of the sky with less observing time.
  • It will measure light from a billion galaxies over the course of the mission lifetime.
  • It will perform a microlensing survey of the inner Milky Way to find ~2,600 exoplanets.
• Coronagraph Instrument

• • It is a technology demonstration which will perform high contrast imaging and spectroscopy of individual nearby exoplanets.
  • Its Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey will focus on the Milky Way.

Source: IT