Roman Space Telescope Revives a 300‑Megapixel View of the Cosmos
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has powered up its 300‑megapixel Wide Field Instrument (an infrared camera) and completed early checks on its Coronagraph Instrument as part of a months‑long commissioning ahead of first science images targeted for early 2027. The mission, traveling toward the second Lagrange point (L2), is cooling detectors to operating temperatures, testing filters and focus mechanisms, and confirming ground‑control communications—essentials for high‑volume, wide‑field surveys of the cosmos and potential planet imaging.
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