{"id":333528,"date":"2026-08-31T02:44:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333528\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T02:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:44:51","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nasas-newest-space-telescope-will-shed-some-light-on-our-dark-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333528\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nasas Newest Space Telescope Will Shed Some Light On Our Dark Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NASA\u2019 s newest space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, successfully launched into space Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Ahead of schedule and named for the first female executive and chief of astronomy at NASA, this telescope will give the world a completely new view of the Milky Way galaxy and beyond.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Roman joins the space telescope family along with Hubble and James Webb. Its superpower will be able to survey large regions of space about 1,000 times faster.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Roman-Webb_Infographic3_Half.jpg\"   alt=\"Roman-Webb_Infographic3_Half.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Roman_Info_Still_1.jpg\"   alt=\"Roman_Info_Still_1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It will be able to discover new planets outside the solar system, map billions of galaxies, study black holes and dark mater &#8212; all without the Earth\u2019s atmosphere getting in the way.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Trailer_still_1-1.jpg\"   alt=\"Trailer_still_1-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It\u2019s now on a 1 million-mile, three-month long journey to its orbit, which will sit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2.\u00a0 Roman will face opposite the Sun, using it to power its instruments.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On board is a very large mirror, as large as Hubble\u2019s but only \u00bc of the weight. It will work along with a 300-megapixel infrared camera and coronograph. The coronograph will block out the glare from bright stars and be able to detect fainter planets that are orbiting them.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Roman-OTA.jpg\"   alt=\"Roman-OTA.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Nancy Grace Roman will enable the world to have a deeper understanding of some of the universe\u2019s darkest secrets, with data that will be free and accessible for scientists as well as the public.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Its first images will be available early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019 s newest space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, successfully launched into space Sunday morning. Ahead of schedule&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-333528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}