{"id":755843,"date":"2026-08-31T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755843\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:26:08","slug":"nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755843\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/roman-space-telescope\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope<\/a>, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, transits the Sun during launch from the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 30, 2026. Roman is named after the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/roman-space-telescope\/who-is-nancy-grace-roman\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">first chief astronomer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roman will survey billions of stars and galaxies with a field of view far larger than Hubble\u2019s, helping scientists study dark energy, exoplanets, and the evolution of the universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/roman\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow along with Roman\u2019s journey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: NASA\/John Kraus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, transits the Sun during launch from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[13620,21871,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-755843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}