{"id":4105,"date":"2024-05-15T02:08:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:30:06","slug":"nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our <strong>Milky Way galaxy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives:<\/strong> The mission will <strong>monitor hundreds of millions of stars<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instruments of Telescope<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wide Field Instrument:<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<li>It will measure light from a billion galaxies over the course of the mission&#8217;s lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>It will perform a microlensing survey of the inner Milky Way to find ~2,600 exoplanets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coronagraph Instrument:<\/strong> It is a technology demonstration which will perform high contrast imaging and spectroscopy of individual nearby exoplanets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey<\/strong> will focus on the Milky Way.<\/li>\n<li>For this, it will use infrared vision to peer through clouds of dust that can potentially block the view of the crowded central region of our galaxy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This telescope plans to capture this by taking an <strong>image every 15 minutes<\/strong> around the clock for about two months.<\/li>\n<li>This process will be repeated six times over <strong>Roman&#8217;s five-year primary mission<\/strong>, which will total more than a year of observations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is a Neutron Star?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/neutron-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neutron Star<\/a> is an extremely dense and compact celestial object that forms when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses under its own gravity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/nasas-nancy-grace-roman-telescope-to-hunt-for-primordial-black-holes-from-big-bang-era-720023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA&#8217;s Nancy Grace Roman telescope to hunt for primordial black holes from Big Bang era<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope or Roman Space Telescope (RST) is a NASA deep space infrared observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}