The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope undergoes vibration testing before its launch, scheduled for 30 August. Credit: Sydney Rohde/NASA/Roman Space Telescope (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) It’s crunch time at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Since earlier this summer, a countdown clock by the campus’s main gate in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been ticking down to 30 August.
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Roman joins an international cohort of teamworking telescopes. Roman will work in tandem with many other NASA-led and international missions to provide the most complete view of our universe yet. Roman’s large panoramas will uncover interesting targets that Hubble could follow up on using infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light to offer a more comprehensive view.