{"id":16327,"date":"2026-08-17T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16327"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:49:12","slug":"nancy-grace-roman-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nancy-grace-roman-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nasa\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to begin its journey to a new home in deep space on August 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>NASA\u2019s <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">next flagship <\/span><b>orbital observatory.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">designed to settle essential questions in the areas of <\/span><b>dark energy, exoplanets,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>infrared astrophysics.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists by using this telescope will focus on three main topic areas: <\/span><b>dark energy, exoplanets, and dark matter.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the <\/span><b>heart of our Milky Way galaxy.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will orbit around a special place in space called the second <\/span><b>Sun-Earth<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lagrangian-point\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Lagrange point<\/a>, or L2.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objectives:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Instruments of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Wide Field Instrument<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>300<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><b>megapixel infrared camera.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will <\/span><b>measure light from a billion galaxies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the course of the mission lifetime.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will perform a microlensing survey of the inner Milky Way to find ~2,600 exoplanets.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Coronagraph Instrument<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a technology demonstration which will <\/span><b>perform high contrast imaging and spectroscopy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of individual nearby exoplanets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey will focus <\/span><b>on the Milky Way.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-l2-journey-explained-2971750-2026-08-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA\u2019s next flagship orbital observatory. 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