science ๐ญ NASA's Roman Telescope has a wild tech upgrade
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is launching soon, featuring a specialized coronagraph for the first time. This instrument, developed for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is designed to capture starlight reflected off a planet's surface. It utilizes two palm-sized, actively deformable mirrors to cancel out light distortions from bright stars. The project will gather test data to inform future missions, such as the Habitable Worlds Observatory. This crucial step advances the search for Earthlike planets orbiting sunlike stars. ๐