The new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman (1925–2018), NASA’s first chief of astronomy. Her vision and leadership helped establish NASA as a world-class scientific institution and laid the foundation for generations of space telescopes that continue to expand humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.

 

Roman will work in tandem with many other NASA-led and international missions to provide the most complete view of our universe yet. Roman joins an international cohort of teamworking telescopes – NASA’s JWST and Hubble, European Space Agency’s Euclid, and the ground-based Vera C. Rubin Observatory which is a National Science Foundation–Department of Energy collaboration. Together they see the universe in multiple spectral bands, some looking deep, some looking wide, and all providing their part to visualizing near and deep space, making new discoveries.