Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
26-08-2023
10:31 AM
1 min read
Overview:
NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is poised to embark on a groundbreaking mission of hunting for primordial black holes dating back billions of years to the Big Bang.
About Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope:
- It will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
- Objectives: The mission 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.
- Instruments of Telescope
- Wide Field Instrument: 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's 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.
- 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.
- This telescope plans to capture this by taking an image every 15 minutes around the clock for about two months.
- This process will be repeated six times over Roman's five-year primary mission, which will total more than a year of observations.
Q1:What is a Neutron Star?
Neutron Star is an extremely dense and compact celestial object that forms when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses under its own gravity.
Source: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman telescope to hunt for primordial black holes from Big Bang era