The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

The short version

• It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon.
• From this vantage point, Roman will conduct an unprecedented survey of the universe .
• Its field of view is 100 times larger than Hubble's 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 directly image exoplanets , even smaller, older…