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August 30, 2026

Rocket blasting off of the launchpad with a large plume of smoke beneath it.

Roman Space Telescope Successfully Launches, Beginning a New Era in Surveys of the Universe

Today, August 30, 2026, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully lifted off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in ...

November 20, 2025

Mosaic titled “Red Giant Echoes with Roman,” which shows 11 artist’s concepts of stars, including the Sun and 10 red giants of various radii against a black background. The illustrations are organized roughly into three rows with the grid size of the largest red giant star, located in the bottom right, the equivalent of two rows. Each star is depicted as a bright and blotchy orb. Starting with the mosaic’s smallest star, the Sun, in the top left corner and shifting to the right before moving to the next row, the illustrations become gradually larger and change from shades of light orange to red-orange. Each star’s radius is placed at the bottom of its grid. From left to right, the four light orange stars in the top row are listed with the following radii: Sun, Radius 1.0; Radius 6.3; Radius 7.0, and Radius 7.8. The second row has three orange stars and reads: Radius 8.8; Radius 9.7; and Radius 10.7. The third has four red-orange stars and reads: Radius 11.8; Radius 15.0; Radius 20.1; and Radius 33.7.

NASA’s Roman Could Bring New Waves of Information on Galaxy’s Stars

A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a “key” that will harmonize well with the ...