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Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times greater than Hubble, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies d (science.nasa.gov)
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[–] clover@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Love the design, fits The Expanse's aesthetic.

[–] walden 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Cool! I wonder how it will compare to JWST.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 12 points 7 months ago

Lower resolution and they operate in different bands of light. Nancy’s main thing is that it has about equal detail to Hubble, but a lot wider field of view. The main mission is to map a lot more of the night sky at decent resolution rather than to get better images of things we’ve already seen.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

NGRST