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NASA’s new Roman Space Telescope aims to discover 100,000 cosmic explosions

Andrew Paul

created: July 17, 2025, 3:49 p.m. | updated: July 27, 2025, 12:42 p.m.

This simulation showcases the dynamic universe as NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could see it over the course of its five-year primary mission. An artist’s illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope once deployed into orbit. Peering further into the depths of space also means Roman will glimpse further back into time than any telescope before it. This infographic describes the High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey that will be conducted by NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Researchers have only officially ever documented a single such event, but the study’s authors believe the Roman telescope could pinpoint another five of them.

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