28-08-2026 14:00 via popsci.com

How NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman space telescope compares with Hubble and Webb

Less than five years after the revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST or Webb) debut, NASA is heading back to the launch pad to deploy another world-class space observatory—the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Called Roman for short, the space telescope will hunt dark matter, dark energy and exoplanets, as well as providing an unprecedented view of the cosmos to all sorts of astrophysicists.With Webb and the venerable Hubble Space Telescope continuing to gather ever more
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