{"id":664088,"date":"2026-08-30T19:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/664088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:31:09","slug":"the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches-to-study-dark-matter-and-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/664088\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">From this vantage point, Roman will conduct an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-will-now-travel-almost-one-million-miles-to-reveal-mysteries-of-the-universe-49555\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unprecedented survey of the universe<\/a>. Its field of view is 100 times larger than Hubble\u2019s and, according to NASA, it can survey the sky 1,000 times faster using its 300-megapixel infrared camera. Roman also has a Coronagraph system that can block and mask glare from stars, allowing it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/11\/4\/22761537\/space-telescope-astronomy-decadal-survey-astrophysics-habitable-planets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">directly image exoplanets<\/a>, even smaller, older, and colder planets orbiting close to their stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Roman will also conduct detailed 3D scans to help map the distribution of dark matter and narrow down the potential candidates for its makeup. Using the same 3D scans and gravitational lensing measurements, Roman will attempt to map how dark energy shaped the evolution of the universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Nicky Fox, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasas-dark-universe-seeking-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a press release<\/a> that \u201cRoman will be a discovery machine that will bring us closer than ever before to answering humanity\u2019s most profound questions about our cosmic history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From this vantage point, Roman will conduct an unprecedented survey of the universe. Its field of view is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[18,19,17,1024,5,133,451],"class_list":["post-664088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nasa","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117186126362648280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}