A new long range telescope

On Sunday morning, NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman telescope into orbit. It will take some time to reach its desired location, because it’s headed to a Lagrange point (like the James Webb space telescope, this will sit in a space between two gravitational objects so it’s unaffected by them and can see great distances through our solar system). 

The telescope will look into but cosmos and study dark matter and dark energy. It’s a most exciting thing!

This is the first satellite named after a woman, and who better than astronomer Nancy Grace Roman. You can read her story here: 

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/who-is-nancy-grace-roman/