Thursday, May 14, 2026

The Roman Space Telescope is Ahead of Schedule, and the Hubble is Giving it a Jump Start

This is a near-infrared image from the ground-based VISTA VVV Survey.  It shows the Milky Way's galactic bulge, with the location of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey superimposed over the regions the Hubble surveyed with its instruments. The Hubble's survey was completed in order to give astronomers a leg up in understanding and interpreting the Roman's results. Image Credit: NASA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI); Acknowledgment: VISTA, Dante Minniti (UNAB), Ignacio Toledo (ALMA), Martin Kornmesser (ESO)

One of the core community surveys of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, is expected to locate over a thousand exoplanets that orbit far away from their stars, beyond the orbital distance of Earth from the Sun. Although Roman hasn’t launched yet, astronomers already are gathering useful supporting data by utilizing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which could assist astronomers in analyzing Roman data.



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