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ALT An artist concept of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope against a purple and black background. The telescope is a silver cylinder, with a panel of solar panels along the back like wings on an insect. A hood along the front is open to reveal a mirror, reflecting purple.
ALT On an abstract purple space-inspired background, illustrations of 11 space telescopes form the shape of a heart around another. Each telescope is shaded in a monochrome blue palette, and they have a variety of different shapes and features. These spacecraft are not depicted to scale. Credit: NASA
ALT Illustration of the MMX spacecraft, with its landing legs and solar panels, in space above Mars, with the small moon Phobos nearby. Credit: JAXA
ALT This oval map shows the whole sky as observed by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS. The background is a deep blue-gray speckled with countless tiny dots and streaks. The plane of our Milky Way galaxy appears as a large, wispy pale arc sweeping around the center of the image. Pink dots speckle the map, marking the locations of over 1,000 confirmed exoplanets. A bright patch along the bottom edge just left of center shows the location of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. A few black lines and blocks are visible in the image, mostly on the left side of the map, indicating regions TESS has not yet imaged. This image is watermarked with “Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Nicole Schanche (University of Maryland College Park).”
ALT On this week’s #HWHAP, hear never-before-released recordings from the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby as lunar scientists Juliane Gross and Aaron Regberg unpack what the astronauts saw and why it matters. Credit: NASA
ALT This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the Wide Field Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It was taken as an initial performance assessment with the detector array still stowed as it was for launch, far from best focus. Roman’s primary science instrument has opened its eyes to the universe for the first time, revealing a sea of out-of-focus stars, each spread out over many thousands of pixels. The image, which zooms into one detector and zooms again to a single star in the insets, offers a baseline the Roman team will work from to align the telescope’s optics and tune the focus. The team will soon activate the instrument’s fine-guidance system, which will mean Roman can lock onto targets. They’ll also focus the observatory, which will shrink each star’s light to appear as a crisp point, rather than the broad, donut-like features seen here (which appear as expected given the instrument’s present configuration).
ALT A group of interns is gathered around a large red sculpture of the NASA worm logo outside of NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
ALT NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed the New York City area from the International Space Station in March 2020. Credit: NASA
ALT Artwork for Roman Space Telescope miniseries of NASA's podcast Curious Universe. The image shows a close, detailed rendering of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in black and purple. The logo "Roman Space Telescope" is bottom center, and the logo "Curious Universe" is top center of the frame.
ALT A young person holds a tablet computer up towards a cloudy sky to take a picture
ALT Engineers in white clean-room suits install and inspect bundles of electrical wiring inside Dragonfly’s open spacecraft body at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
ALT A global view of Saturn’s moon Titan with a boxed area enlarged in an inset. The inset highlights Ahmakiq Undae, Dragonfly’s planned landing region near Selk Crater, in purple.
ALT This certifies that "Nancy Roman has officially adopted one pixel from Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's first images." The number 2 is at the bottom, representing the unique pixel number assigned to Nancy Roman.
