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On 📆 Sunday, Aug. 30, #NASA is planning to launch the Nancy Grace Roman #SpaceTelescope 🔭 at 7:26 a.m. EDT on a SpaceX #FalconHeavy, bound for the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (or L2) roughly 1 million miles from Earth https://www.astronomy.com/whats-launching-this-week/nasas-roman-space-telescope-takes-flight-and-starlink-endures/

#Astronomy

‘Treasure Chest’ cosmic cloud glitters with dozens of young stars

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/treasure-chest-space-image-nasa/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nasa-turned-a-spy-satellite-into-the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope/

#NASA #NRO #SpySatellite #NancyGraceRomanTelescope #Roman #WFIRST #WideFieldInfraredSurveyTelescope #WFIRST-AFTA #SpaceTelescope #DarkEnergy #DarkMatter

NASA abandons mission to save Swift Observatory from a fiery death

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/nasa-abandons-swift-observatory-rescue/

NASA shares first images of SpaceX moon crash site

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/spacex-moon-crash-images-nasa/

Things in the Universe that make you go Hmmmm!

Astronomers spot a new object. It appears to be a star as big as our solar system emitting 100 billion times more energy than any known star can physically produce?

Is this a "black hole star" MIT astronomers are asking .... Scientists indicate the most likely explanation for this strange new red dot is that it is a mashup of a black hole and a star. https://phys.org/news/2026-08-black-hole-star-astronomers-brand.html
#Astrophysics #MIT #Astronomy #Universe #Stars #BlackHoles #BlackHoleStar #NASA #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JWST #SpaceTelescope #Astronomers

A suitcase-sized satellite may unlock the secrets of the early universe

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/cosmocube-satellite-moon/

Astronomers discover the existence of a ‘black hole star’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/black-hole-star-discovery/

Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole actually doesn’t devour everything

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/milky-way-black-hole-water-dust/

Extraordinarily rare supernova death spotted 500 million light-years from Earth

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/rare-supernova-death/

Super rare black hole devours unlucky star

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/rare-black-hole-devours-star/

Near-Earth asteroid not an asteroid at all

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/comet-mistaken-for-asteroid/

NASA is gearing up to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on August 30 sending the spacecraft 1 million miles from Earth to unlock the mysteries of the universe.

Roman will investigate and answer questions about dark matter, dark energy, cosmology, exoplanets and astrophysics, by capture panoramic images about 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/14/NASAs-Roman-Space-Telescope-set-to-unlock-the-universes-biggest-mysteries/4941784068962/ #NASA #Astronomy #Space #SpaceTelescope #RomanSpaceTelescope #OuterSpace #Research #Universe #Astrophysics #DarkMatter #Exoplanets #Hubble #Cosmology #SpaceExploration

What is new in the Universe, is actually very old!

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found.

Two of these galaxy cores EUCL J172902.75+641018.1 and EUCL J125308.55+705432.3 are powered by gargantuan black holes, and are the earliest quasars yet observed in cosmic history.

Both lie just over 13 billion light-years away, and emerged during the Universe’s first 670 million years – just 5% of its current age. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_discovers_the_most_ancient_quasar_in_the_Universe #EU #Euclid #SpaceTelescope #Space #Universe #Astronomy #Quasars #BlackHoles #Galaxy #CosmicHistory

#ESA:
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Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe
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"The .. Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found. Two of these giant and dazzling galaxy cores, powered by gargantuan black holes, are the earliest quasars yet observed in cosmic history. .."

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_discovers_the_most_ancient_quasar_in_the_Universe

6.7.2026

#Astronomie #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Euclid #EuclidWideSurvey #Quasar #Redshift #Rotverschiebung #SpaceTelescope #Universe #Universum #Weltraumteleskop

NASA celebrates Fourth of July with some cosmic fireworks

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/nasa-fourth-of-july-space-photos/

#NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace #Roman #SpaceTelescope will continue to expand #exoplanet science . That telescope is slated to launch no earlier than early 📆 September 2026 https://www.space.com/science/astrophysics/scientists-found-10-000-possible-exoplanets-hiding-in-nasa-data

The sun’s violent death could look like this

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/sun-death-white-dwarf/

Man uses a Game Boy Camera to photograph Jupiter

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/game-boy-camera-jupiter/

The Pink Planet has a salty secret

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/pink-planet-salty-secret/

Over 60 million stars dazzle in new image of the Milky Way

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/new-milky-way-image-euclid-telescope/

Two ‘super-puff’ planets are as wispy as cotton candy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/cotton-candy-super-puff-planets/

This Is the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way’s Center Ever Taken https://petapixel.com/2026/06/24/this-is-the-most-detailed-photo-of-the-milky-ways-center-ever-taken/ #euclidspacetelescope #astrophotography #spacetelescope #astronomy #telescope #milkway #science #euclid #galaxy #Space #space #News #NASA #esa

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's ‘Spy Mirror’ Could Transform How We Map The Universe
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https://www.discovermagazine.com/nasa-s-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-s-spy-mirror-could-transform-how-we-map-the-universe-49239 <-- shared technical article
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https://www.mos.org/article/ready-roman-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope <-- shared technical article
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https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-nasas-next-great-observatory-is-finally-complete <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/TcjuucVEB5g?si=I93BjarghNcYKKqj <-- shared NASA Goddard technical overview video
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https://youtu.be/lBAuc057pVA?si=IghhCWC915FO3y3C <-- shared media video
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“… Roman is set to launch on August 30, 2026, and will help us gain a wider view of the universe and collect data faster than its predecessors, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope will do so thanks to the incredible equipment and instruments built into it.
These instruments include the primary mirror, which was gifted to NASA by a U.S. intelligence agency, the Wide Field Instrument, and an advanced coronograph. Altogether, these instruments could help us map out more of the universe than we ever imagined.
“It is an incredible feat of precision engineering. It's quite possibly the most complex scientific instrument that NASA has ever built,” Dominic Benford, …program scientist for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…”
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“Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. This observatory will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics…”
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The Roman Space Telescope is engineered to investigate the biggest mysteries in astrophysics:
• Dark Energy & Dark Matter: By surveying billions of galaxies and mapping their distribution, Roman will explore why the universe's expansion is accelerating and trace cosmic history.
• Exoplanets: It will utilize gravitational microlensing to complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, aiming to find thousands of exoplanets, including elusive rogue planets.
• Infrared Astrophysics: The telescope's deep, crisp infrared vision will help astronomers measure light from up to a billion galaxies over its lifetime.
#coronograph #astronomy #mapping #exoplanets #universe #telescope #spacetelescope #darkenergy #darkmatter #NancyGrace #NASA #Roman #astrophysics #cosmic #infrared #launch #WideFieldInstrument #instumentation #exploration extraterrestrial observatory #space #remotesensing #galacticbulge #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #supernova
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‘Fireworks’ spotted in stellar explosion 15 million light-years away

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/galaxy-m83-fireworks-supernova/

Put your name aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/put-your-name-aboard-nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope/

JWST spots dormant black hole 10 billion light-years from Earth

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/science/distant-dormant-black-hole-jwst/