NASA Ames’ Contributions to Roman’s Mission

Set to launch on Sunday, Aug. 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will empower astronomers to explore vast regions of the cosmos and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, dark matter, planets outside our solar system, and the formation and growth of galaxies over cosmic time. Key contributions to Roman’s mission […]

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  1. Hubble Space Telescope's Universe Expansion Proof: The Hubble Space Telescope refined measurements of the universe's expansion rate and contributed to the discovery that this expansion is accelerating, a finding that supported the Big Bang theory and earned a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011.
  2. Kepler Space Telescope's Exoplanet Census: NASA's Kepler Space Telescope discovered over 2,600 confirmed exoplanets and thousands of candidates, revealing that planets are common in our galaxy and that many stars host multiple planetary systems, including Earth-sized worlds in habitable zones.
  3. James Webb Space Telescope's Early Universe Insights: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided unprecedented views of the early universe, discovering massive early galaxies and actively growing supermassive black holes just hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, challenging existing theories of galaxy and black hole formation.

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