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Many thousands of bright stars speckle the screen. The smallest ones are white pinpoints, strewn across the screen like spilled salt. Larger ones are yellow and bluish white with spiky outer edges like sea urchins. Credit: Matthew Penny (Louisiana State University)

A simulated image of NASAโ€™s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopeโ€™s future observations toward the center of our galaxy, spanning less than 1 percent of the total area of Romanโ€™s Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey. The simulated stars were drawn from the Besanรงon Galactic Model.

Exploring the Changing Universe with the Roman Space Telescope

The view from your backyard might paint the universe as an unchanging realm, where only twinkling stars and nearby objects, like satellites and meteors, stray from the apparent constancy. But stargazing through NASAโ€™s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will offer a front row seat to a dazzling display of cosmic fireworks sparkling across the sky.

Roman will view extremely faint infrared light, which has longer wavelengths than our eyes can see. Two of the missionโ€™s core observing programs will monitor specific patches of the sky. Stitching the results together like stop-motion animation will create movies that reveal changing objects and fleeting events that would otherwise be hidden from our view.

Watch this video to learn about time-domain astronomy and how time will be a key element in NASAโ€™s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopeโ€™s galactic bulge survey. Credit: NASAโ€™s Goddard Space Flight Center

This type of science, called time-domain astronomy, is difficult for telescopes that have smaller views of space. Romanโ€™s large field of view will help us see huge swaths of the universe. Instead of always looking at specific things and events astronomers have already identified, Roman will be able to repeatedly observe large areas of the sky to catch phenomena scientists can't predict. Then astronomers can find things no one knew were there!

One of Romanโ€™s main surveys, the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, will monitor hundreds of millions of stars toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers will see many of the stars appear to flash or flicker over time.

This animation illustrates the concept of gravitational microlensing. When one star in the sky appears to pass nearly in front of another, the light rays of the background source star are bent due to the warped space-time around the foreground star. The closer star is then a virtual magnifying glass, amplifying the brightness of the background source star, so we refer to the foreground star as the lens star. If the lens star harbors a planetary system, then those planets can also act as lenses, each one producing a short change in the brightness of the source. Thus, we discover the presence of each exoplanet, and measure its mass and how far it is from its star. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Labย 

That can happen when something like a star or planet moves in front of a background star from our point of view. Because anything with mass warps the fabric of space-time, light from the distant star bends around the nearer object as it passes by. That makes the nearer object act as a natural magnifying glass, creating a temporary spike in the brightness of the background starโ€™s light. That signal lets astronomers know thereโ€™s an intervening object, even if they canโ€™t see it directly.

A galaxy with a large, warmly glowing circular center and several purplish spiral arms extending outward, wrapped around the center like a cinnamon roll. Stars speckle the entire galaxy, but they are most densely packed near the center where they're yellower. Toward the outer edges, the stars are whiter. Overlaid on top of the galaxy is a small pink outline of a spacecraft located a little more than halfway out toward the bottom edge of the galaxy. A reddish search beam extends across the galaxy through its center, about to the same point on the opposite side. Credit: NASAโ€™s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

This artistโ€™s concept shows the region of the Milky Way NASAโ€™s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopeโ€™s Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey will cover โ€“ relatively uncharted territory when it comes to planet-finding. Thatโ€™s important because the way planets form and evolve may be different depending on where in the galaxy theyโ€™re located. Our solar system is situated near the outskirts of the Milky Way, about halfway out on one of the galaxyโ€™s spiral arms. A recent Kepler Space Telescope study showed that stars on the fringes of the Milky Way possess fewer of the most common planet types that have been detected so far. Roman will search in the opposite direction, toward the center of the galaxy, and could find differences in that galactic neighborhood, too.

Using this method, called microlensing, Roman will likely set a new record for the farthest-known exoplanet. That would offer a glimpse of a different galactic neighborhood that could be home to worlds quite unlike the more than 5,500 that are currently known. Romanโ€™s microlensing observations will also find starless planets, black holes, neutron stars, and more!

This animation shows a planet crossing in front of, or transiting, its host star and the corresponding light curve astronomers would see. Using this technique, scientists anticipate NASAโ€™s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find 100,000 new worlds. Credit: NASAโ€™s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)

Stars Roman sees may also appear to flicker when a planet crosses in front of, or transits, its host star as it orbits. Roman could find 100,000 planets this way! Small icy objects that haunt the outskirts of our own solar system, known as Kuiper belt objects, may occasionally pass in front of faraway stars Roman sees, too. Astronomers will be able to see how much water the Kuiper belt objects have because the ice absorbs specific wavelengths of infrared light, providing a โ€œfingerprintโ€ of its presence. This will give us a window into our solar systemโ€™s early days.

A fiery orange globe appears at the left of a white disk of spinning material. As the disk spins, it draws material from the orange globe. Then suddenly the center of the white disk grows extremely bright as a sphere of white blossoms outward. The explosive white sphere then expands, quickly encompassing the whole screen in white criss-crossed with purplish gray filaments. Credit: NASAโ€™s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI

This animation visualizes a type Ia supernova.

Romanโ€™s High Latitude Time-Domain Survey will look beyond our galaxy to hunt for type Ia supernovas. These exploding stars originate from some binary star systems that contain at least one white dwarf โ€“ the small, hot core remnant of a Sun-like star. In some cases, the dwarf may siphon material from its companion. This triggers a runaway reaction that ultimately detonates the thief once it reaches a specific point where it has gained so much mass that it becomes unstable.

NASAโ€™s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations, astronomers aim to shine a light on several cosmic mysteries, providing a window onto the universeโ€™s distant past. Credit: NASAโ€™s Goddard Space Flight Center

Since these rare explosions each peak at a similar, known intrinsic brightness, astronomers can use them to determine how far away they are by simply measuring how bright they appear. Astronomers will use Roman to study the light of these supernovas to find out how quickly they appear to be moving away from us.

By comparing how fast theyโ€™re receding at different distances, scientists can trace cosmic expansion over time. This will help us understand whether and how dark energy โ€“ the unexplained pressure thought to speed up the universeโ€™s expansion โ€“ has changed throughout the history of the universe.

Left of center, two bright blue circular shapes appear to be joined toward the center of the frame. They are whitest on their outermost edges. Debris, also white and bright blue, emanates outward and extends all around the frame. The background is black. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI)

NASAโ€™s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will survey the same areas of the sky every few days. Researchers will mine this data to identify kilonovas โ€“ explosions that happen when two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole collide and merge. When these collisions happen, a fraction of the resulting debris is ejected as jets, which move near the speed of light. The remaining debris produces hot, glowing, neutron-rich clouds that forge heavy elements, like gold and platinum. Romanโ€™s extensive data will help astronomers better identify how often these events occur, how much energy they give off, and how near or far they are.

And since this survey will repeatedly observe the same large vista of space, scientists will also see sporadic events like neutron stars colliding and stars being swept into black holes. Roman could even find new types of objects and events that astronomers have never seen before!

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Iyov 36:5 โ€“ Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

See, El is Kabir, and despiseth, not any; He is Kabir in koโ€™ach lev (strength of understanding).

Translation: Supreme God is Kabir, but despises no one. He is Kabir, and firm in his purpose.


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