Roman telescopes data deluge will change who gets to do big astronomy

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will downlink about 1.4 terabytes of data — on par with an entire gaming system hard drive — every single day. When Kristen McQuinn thinks about that deluge and how to get it in the hands of researchers, she likens it to another technological evolution. "Back in the day, we would rent movies from Blockbuster to take home," said McQuinn, who will lead science operations at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. "Later, we