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Nancy Grace Roman
Animated illustration of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the center with the Hubble Space Telescope on the left and the James Webb Space Telescope on the right, under a headline reading Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Nancy Grace Roman Illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with labeled features including solar array sun shield, communications antenna, primary mirror, coronagraph, and wide field instrument. Insets compare its field of view to Hubble and show its ability to block glare for imaging planets. A scale diagram shows the mirror's 2.4 meter diameter. Hubble Space Telescope
Illustration of a wavy pink line connecting Earth to a distant galaxy across a dark grid, representing light traveling through space for the Roman Telescope Ultra Deep Field simulation.
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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Add new Web site: NASA Science - Dr. Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018). Oct 19, 2026
Noted the successful launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Aug 30, 2026
Added media. Aug 20, 2026
Media added. Aug 14, 2026
Media added. Jul 14, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 12, 2026
Anniversary information added. Dec 21, 2025
First paragraph modernization. May 13, 2024
Corrected display issue. Sep 29, 2023
New article added. Sep 28, 2023
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