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Weâre excited to announce that weâve selected five new surveys for the soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! These observations will unveil myriad worlds, provide dazzling looks at globular clusters and two nearby galaxies, and examine the early universe in unprecedented detail. Hereâs a preview of each new survey.
This ground-based image of the Andromeda Galaxy highlights the large field of view of NASA's soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, with Hubble's field of view and a full moon shown for comparison.
Mapping Andromeda & Triangulum
One Roman survey will take spying on the neighbors to the extreme, creating the most detailed mosaics ever of two of the closest big galaxies to the Milky Way: Andromeda and Triangulum. Roman will observe each galaxy repeatedly, ultimately mapping more than half a billion stars in 3D and monitoring how they move and change over time.
That will help astronomers reconstruct how the galaxies formed and evolved, including how theyâve interacted with each other over the course of billions of years. Astronomers will better understand how stars are born, live, and die in galaxies beyond our own.
The survey will also probe each galaxyâs dark matter underpinnings. This mysterious material doesnât emit light or interact with normal matter except gravitationally, yet it accounts for the vast majority of the universeâs mass. Watching how gravity guides the movement of stars in these galaxies will help astronomers trace the distribution of both normal and dark matter in exquisite detail.
NASA's Kepler space telescope, shown in this artist's concept, revealed that there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will extend Kepler's legacy by covering the same area in even sharper detail, which is sure to unearth many more planets and other objects.
Kepler Revisited
As NASA's first dedicated planet-hunting mission, the Kepler space telescope searched a slice of our galaxy for Earth-sized planets. Now, Roman is set to retrace Kepler's footsteps, covering the same area in even sharper detail.
The Roman-Kepler Legacy Survey will capture detailed images of all 200,000 objects Kepler observed, including over 4,000 stars that may host planets. And Romanâs more powerful view will reveal things Kepler was unable to see, adding up to about 17 million stars and brown dwarfs â in-between objects that are too heavy to be classified as planets, but not quite massive enough to become stars.
The survey will also probe Tatooine-like worlds that orbit pairs of stars. These stellar couples are so close that they easily blur together, which is why we need a crisp view like Romanâs to tell them apart.
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures what looks like a galactic glitter bomb in the night sky. Called 47 Tucanae, this stellar collection is one of about 150 globular star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy. While previous telescopes have only observed small pieces of it at a time, Roman will capture it in its entirety in a single snapshot. In about one week of observation time, NASAâs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will survey this cluster and three others covering a total area that would take NASAâs Hubble Space Telescope around 18 years to cover, while matching its resolution.
Globular Cluster Survey
Romanâs globular cluster survey will take the most complete inventory ever of stars in four relatively nearby groups of ancient, densely packed stars: M4, NGC 6397, 47 Tucanae, and Omega Centauri.Â
In just one week of observation time, Roman will survey a total area that would take NASAâs Hubble Space Telescope around 18 years to cover, while matching its resolution. That will help astronomers tally up and map their hundreds of thousands of stars while identifying very faint objects, like brown dwarfs.
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a portion of GOODS-South, the southern field of a large deep-sky study by several observatories to trace the formation and evolution of galaxies. The image shows a rich tapestry of 7,500 galaxies stretching back through most of the universe's history. The farthest galaxies, a few of the very faint red specks, are seen as they appeared more than 13 billion years ago, or roughly 650 million years after the big bang.
Baby Galaxies
The GRACE (Grism Reionization and Cosmic Evolution) Survey will spend about 2.5 weeks peering far into the universeâs past to hunt for some of the earliest galaxies. Its main goal is to shed light on how the cosmos transitioned from being filled with an opaque gas to becoming crystal clear, allowing light to travel across the universe.
This is the era when the first galaxies began lighting up the cosmos. The GRACE survey aims to find ten times more of the earliest known galaxies than all other telescopes have discovered to date. Scientists will be able to see how galaxies, stars, black holes, and the cosmic web evolved from the dawn of the universe to the present day.
The eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. NASAâs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a similar observation covering a patch of sky more than 140 times larger.
Extreme Deep FieldÂ
The RXDF (Roman eXtreme Deep Field) will stare deep into a small patch of sky, essentially collecting a cosmic core sample. This mega-exposure will be similar to but more than 140 times larger than Hubbleâs eXtreme Deep Field.Â
And instead of taking a single snapshot, Roman will repeat the observations over time. Stitching together a detailed time-lapse of a relatively large chunk of the early universe will help astronomers track how the earliest galaxies, black holes, and other structures formed and changed across cosmic history. The observations could also catch some of the first supernova explosions and show how they shaped the early cosmos.
NASAâs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopeâs three main observing programs, highlighted in this infographic, will enable astronomers to view the universe as never before, revealing billions of cosmic objects strewn across enormous swaths of space-time.
All of this is in addition to Romanâs three core surveys and first announced bonus survey, which will transform our view of the universe. Follow along with Romanâs road to launch at nasa.gov/roman, and virtually tour the Roman observatory here.
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writers really will spend twenty minutes pacing around the kitchen thinking âthis scene is geniusâ and then sit down to type and suddenly remember approximately three words and one emotional vibe
enraged after looking into this image... the whale pictured, "Sweet Girl", was killed just four days after these photos were taken. ships colliding with whales are one of the leading causes of their deaths worldwide... this can be prevented by setting speed limits, but giant commercial companies & a population addicted to 30 second shipping makes this difficult.
âSince Sweet Girlâs death, a petition has been launched aiming to get the government to reduce ship speeds around the islands.Â
A report by the International Whaling Commission has suggested that ship strikes are an increasing problem for whale populations, while the Guardian reports that âworldwide ship numbers quadrupled between 1992 and 2012â.Â
Doc already thought of putting a sleeping pill in Lightning's food (like hiding a pill in a dog's food) just so that he stops talking for a second, but decided not to.
So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.
I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.
I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.
Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.
Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.
A lot of people these days know Rick Astley because of funny internet joke, but he had multiple hits back in the 80s which were pretty nice! Like this one :3
Had a dream that Maru would sometimes make âbathtub ramenâ for dinner at Piston Peak. He had a designated ramen tub and everything, and he would fill it to the brim with hot water, ramen noodles, and spices, and apparently everyone loved it. And honestly? I think my asleep brain may have been cooking there.
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