How did the "Roman warrior" search for the second Earth?

(NLDO) - New equipment on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope could help make the dream of finding a replica of Earth come true soon.

According to SciTech Daily , NASA's Nancy Grace Roman mission team has integrated the improved Roman Coronagraph into this space telescope, marking an important milestone in exoplanet exploration technology.

Goddard engineers are integrating the new Roman Coronagraph into the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope - Photo: NASA

Nancy Grace Roman is the most advanced telescope being built by NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center, scheduled to launch in May 2027.

This state-of-the-art space observation warrior is named after astrophysicist Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), a NASA scientist who pioneered the construction of telescopes.

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is sometimes referred to as "Roman," which means "Rome" and is thus likened to NASA's "Roman warrior."

According to NASA, the mission's new Roman Coronagraph instrument will play a key role in advancing the ability to directly observe exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - and search for potentially habitable worlds.

The device would include a complex set of active masks and mirrors, intended to block out the bright light from the target planets' parent stars.

This will help scientists observe small planets close to their parent stars that previous telescopes could not see because of "blinding".

Most importantly, it could be the kind of world that resembles our own Earth.

In addition, with more advanced observational capabilities than its predecessors, Nancy Grace Roman promises to find more potential biosignatures from those worlds.

The Roman Coronagraph was also designed to act as a technological stepping stone to finding and cataloging targets that should be further analyzed by even better telescopes in the future.

One of the future warriors following Nancy Grace Roman will be the "Observatory for Habitable Worlds," a telescope specifically designed to search for signs of alien life.

The Roman Coronagraph was built primarily by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), with contributions from ESA, JAXA, CNES (the European, Japanese, and French space agencies) and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

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