She became NASA’s first chief of astronomy in 1960 and was the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA. Nancy Grace Roman earned the nickname " the mother of Hubble" for her pioneering work on the iconic Hubble telescope, which launched into orbit in 1990. It will be able to capture deep-space images with the same resolution as Hubble, but its field of view is 100 times wider, allowing it to image more of the sky in a shorter amount of time.
With its 7.9-foot (2.4 meters) primary mirror, the Roman Space Telescope is about the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope. The mission will also find and study exoplanets, or worlds orbiting stars beyond our solar system.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope-or Roman Space Telescope for short-will help astronomers answer some of the biggest questions of cosmology, like why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.īy studying how the distribution of galaxies throughout the universe has changed over time, the telescope will reveal how the universe’s expansion is driven by dark energy, a mysterious form of energy that makes up roughly two-thirds of the energy in the universe. NASA has renamed its Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), a flagship observatory set to launch in 2025, to honor the renowned astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, also known as the "mother of Hubble."
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