CARSON CITY, Nev., Sept. 24 -- Western Nevada College issued the following news release:
NASA's newest space telescope could spend nearly the next two dozen years changing
what we know about the universe, from the mysteries of dark matter to the search for
worlds beyond our solar system.
At Western Nevada College, where students study the night sky through the telescopes
of the Jack C. Davis Observatory, those discoveries offer a direct connection between
what is being learned in the classroom and one of the most ambitious astronomy missions
in the world.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Aug. 30 and is traveling toward its
observing position about 1 million miles from Earth. NASA announced Sept. 14 that
an exceptionally pre...