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Nancy Grace Roman

Nancy Grace Roman

NASA's first Chief of Astronomy; telescope namesake

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"I knew from age eight or so that I wanted to be an astronomer, even though I had never met one." — Nancy Grace Roman

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NASA builds its next flagship space telescope to map the dark universe

New Capabilities

Deceased (1925–2018)

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is fully built and ready for space. Unveiled on April 21, 2026, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the observatory carries a 300-megapixel infrared camera with a field of view 100 times wider than the Hubble Space Telescope's, designed to photograph a billion galaxies and discover more than 100,000 new worlds over its first five years.

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