UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 27 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - On Sunday, Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The observatory will join the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, and the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, in scanning the vastness of space and potentially finding answers to longstanding mysteries of the universe.
Known as Roman, the new telescope will be able to block the starlight hiding distant exoplanets and reveal the distant disks of dust and particles that eventually give rise to new planets. Roman's goals include completing a statistical census of planetary systems in...