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Thumbnail | Working Name | Description | Credit | File Type | File Size | File Extension | Filename | File Location | Source Location | Learn more about the Roman Space Telescope spacecraft with this short tour of the main systems. | Video | 807.1 MB | MP4 | 13295_Roman_360_Best_10809m81dvpe9zpfjc41zeml5hnq0o0kdh14
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N/A Related Press Release -This image of galaxy cluster Abell 426 showcases the superb resolution and wide field of view of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It highlights Hubble's view of the galaxy NGC 1275 superimposed on a ground-based image. Roman’s Wide Field Instrument field of view is highlighted. Roman’s images will have the resolution of Hubble while covering an area about 100 times larger in a single pointing. This version has labels. The wide field image for Abell 426 is composed of a combination of the Digitized Sky Survey and an image by Petri Kehusmaa.
L. Hustak (STScI) Acknowledgement: Digitized Sky Survey and P. Kehusmaa Image | 8.3 MB | PNG | Abell246_Zoom_RomanHubbleLabeled_3840x2160N/A Related Press Release -This video of galaxy cluster Abell 426 showcases the superb resolution and wide field of view of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It begins with a Hubble image of the galaxy NGC 1275 superimposed on a ground-based image. The view then zooms out to show the full field of view of Roman’s Wide Field Instrument. Roman’s images will have the resolution of Hubble while covering an area about 100 times larger in a single pointing. The wide field image for Abell 426 is composed of a combination of the Digitized Sky Survey and an image by Petri Kehusmaa.
L. Hustak (STScI) Acknowledgement: Digitized Sky Survey and P. Kehusmaa Video | 22.9 MB | MP4 | STScI-H-v2041b-3840x2160 | httpsThis video of galaxy cluster Abell 426 showcases the superb resolution and wide field of view of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It begins with a Hubble image of the galaxy NGC 1275 superimposed on a ground-based image. The view then zooms out to show the full field of view of Roman’s Wide Field Instrument. Roman’s images will have the resolution of Hubble while covering an area about 100 times larger in a single pointing. This version has labels. The wide field image for Abell 426 is composed of a combination of the Digitized Sky Survey and an image by Petri Kehusmaa.
L. Hustak (STScI) Acknowledgement: Digitized Sky Survey and P. Kehusmaa Video | 23.8 MB | MP4 | STScI-H-v2041d-3840x2160This image showcases UGC 2885 (Rubin's Galaxy), with Hubble's view in inset and the Roman field of view. Roman will be able to capture the entire halo of galaxies like Rubin in a single pointing, which is about 100 times larger than a Hubble pointing. Hubble's View of Rubin's Galaxy: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville) Background Image: DSS Image Composition: STScI
Image | 46.5 MB | TIF | rubins_pulloutN/A Hubble's Rubin Galaxy press release - https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-1 This image showcases UGC 2885 (Rubin's Galaxy), with Hubble's view in inset and the Roman field of view. Roman will be able to capture the entire halo of galaxies like Rubin in a single pointing, which is about 100 times larger than a Hubble pointing. In this version, an estimate of the extent of the halo of Rubin's Galaxy is shown. Hubble's View of Rubin's Galaxy: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville) Background Image: DSS Image composition: STScI
Image | 46.5 MB | TIF | rubins_pullout_withHaloN/A Hubble's Rubin Galaxy press release -The footprint of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument on top of the Hubble Legacy Survey. Hubble Legacy Survey: This Hubble Space Telescope image represents the largest, most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies in the universe. The image, a combination of nearly 7,500 separate Hubble exposures, represents 16 years' worth of observations. The ambitious endeavor, called the Hubble Legacy Field, includes several Hubble deep-field surveys, including the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), the deepest view of the universe. The wavelength range stretches from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, capturing all the features of galaxy assembly over time. The image mosaic presents a wide portrait of the distant universe and contains roughly 265,000 galaxies. They stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the universe's birth in the big bang. The tiny, faint, most distant galaxies in the image are similar to the seedling villages from which today's great galaxy star-cities grew. The faintest and farthest galaxies are just one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see. The wider view contains about 30 times as many galaxies as in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken in 2004. The new portrait, a mosaic of multiple snapshots, covers almost the width of the full Moon. Lying in this region is the XDF, which penetrated deeper into space than this legacy field view. However, the XDF field covers less than one-tenth of the full Moon's diameter.
Hubble Legacy Field: Image Composition: STScI Image | 2.9 MB | PNG | HLF-Roman_1920x1080N/A Related Hubble Legacy Field Press Release -
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This illustration compares the relative sizes of the areas of sky covered by two surveys: Roman’s High Latitude Wide Area Survey, outlined in blue, and the largest mosaic led by Hubble, the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), shown in red. In current plans, the Roman survey will be more than 1,000 times broader than Hubble’s. Roman will also explore more distant realms of space than most other telescopes have probed in previous efforts to study why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center | Image | 3.8 MB | JPEG | roman_hls_mkiii_2 |
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The Hubble image of a portion of the GOODS-South field (left) required multiple individual exposures that were stitched into a mosaic. The Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view (right) at least 100 times greater than Hubble, allowing it to capture data on thousands of galaxies in a single exposure. | IMAGE: NASA, ESA IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Pascal Oesch (University of Geneva), Mireia Montes (UNSW), DSS | Image | 32.8 MB | PNG | STScI-01FF85PY2TZSQRK1TVB7Y6NA0J | |||||||||||||||
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This infographic showcases the difference in data volume between the Nancy Grace Roman, Webb and Hubble space telescopes. Each day, Roman will send over 500 times more data back to Earth than Hubble. | Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center | Image | 38.9 MB | PNG | Roman_Data_Scale_Final | https://stsci.box.com/s/iqmluwt2j2dyeexzpv8vyfdo4kkristpkza6zz7s7oo7l1svay3vw30bv00fo46t | https:// | svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13667hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2021/news-2021-048.html | ||||||||||||
The Roman Space Telescope is designed for large surveys of the sky. This animation gives a sense of the scale of just one of Roman’s potential survey areas, which would span an area of 2,000 square degrees – about 10,000 times the size of the full Moon. | NASA, IPAC, Robert L. Hurt (IPAC) Acknowledgement: This animation has made use of the Stellarium planetarium. | Video | 3.2 MB | MP4 | STScI-01FG2BZXPDVVSD26QQMSRGC7ZG | This infographic showcases the difference in data volume between the Nancy Grace Roman and Hubble space telescopes. Each day, Roman will send over 500 times more data back to Earth than Hubble. | Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center | Image | 39.3 MB | PNG | Roman_Data_Scale_HubbleOnly_Final | https://stsci.box.com/s/okmw15dblwmq4ajnmkfnivxdwb4e4p6s7t3gi35q8mkssf8cx170bg0xg6laft8d | https:// | svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13667hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/2021/048/01FG274RXS1QBDZA8WJ7MBAX99?news=true | ||||||
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a clue-hunter. As a survey mission, Roman will observe areas of the sky repeatedly, much like going back to the room multiple times to look for new details, or details that may have changed. It will cast a wide net with Hubble Space Telescope-quality data, but with 200 times Hubble’s infrared field of view! The infrared Roman mission will greatly expand our view of the universe, and it will provide many more clues to help solve some the greatest mysteries of astrophysics. | Illustration: J. Kang/STScI | Image | 682.2 KB | JPG | post_01 | https://stsci.box.com/s/8r9v6y7137opysjc5ildaw66b9r1onl8 | https://twitter.com/SpaceTelescope/status/1562836961064538117 | |||||||||||||
Like a detective who shares clues, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide open access and analysis of its data to scientists everywhere! | Illustration: J. Kang/STScI | Image | 480.5 KB | JPG | post_04 | This simulated image illustrates the wide range of science enabled by Roman's extremely wide field of view and exquisite resolution. The purple squares, which all contain background imagery simulated using data from Hubble’s Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Survey (CANDELS) program, outline the area Roman can capture in a single observation. An orange square shows the field of view of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 for comparison. While the CANDELS program took Hubble nearly 21 days to survey in near-infrared light, Roman’s large field of view and higher efficiency would allow it to survey the same area in less than half an hour. Top left: This view illustrates a region of the large nearby spiral galaxy M83. Top right: A hypothetical distant dwarf galaxy appears in this magnified view, demonstrating Roman’s ability to detect small, faint galaxies at large distances. Bottom left: This magnified view illustrates how Roman will be able to resolve bright stars even in the dense cores of globular star clusters. Bottom right: A zoom of the CANDELS-based background shows the density of high-redshift galaxies Roman will detect. | Credit: Benjamin Williams, David Weinberg, Anil Seth, Eric Bell, Dave Sand, Dominic Benford, and the WINGS Science Investigation Team | Image | 8.5 MB | JPG | Roman - Simulated Viewhttps://stsci.box.com/s | /bceee8zopmvsq169n5tkndutfwnaezluThis simulated image illustrates the wide range of science enabled by Roman's extremely wide field of view and exquisite resolution. The purple squares, which all contain background imagery simulated using data from Hubble’s Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Survey (CANDELS) program, outline the area Roman can capture in a single observation. An orange square shows the field of view of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 for comparison. While the CANDELS program took Hubble nearly 21 days to survey in near-infrared light, Roman’s large field of view and higher efficiency would allow it to survey the same area in less than half an hour. Top left: This view illustrates a region of the large nearby spiral galaxy M83. Top right: A hypothetical distant dwarf galaxy appears in this magnified view, demonstrating Roman’s ability to detect small, faint galaxies at large distances. Bottom left: This magnified view illustrates how Roman will be able to resolve bright stars even in the dense cores of globular star clusters. Bottom right: A zoom of the CANDELS-based background shows the density of high-redshift galaxies Roman will detect. | Credit: Benjamin Williams, David Weinberg, Anil Seth, Eric Bell, Dave Sand, Dominic Benford, and the WINGS Science Investigation Team | Image | PNG | Greatfield_Simulated_Roman_Landscape_Text/cf1s5uejujolke3puxndi6hmtku9cb5u | https://twitter.com/SpaceTelescope/status/1570452139985764352 | |||
As a survey mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will collect Hubble-quality data but with 200 times Hubble’s infrared field of view. It will view planets by the thousands, galaxies by the millions, and stars by the billions. It will transmit almost 1,400 gigabytes of information to the ground each day—more than the storage space of an average home computer. For comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope sends less than 3 gigabytes a day, and the James Webb Space Telescope sends less than 60 gigabytes. After just five years of observing, Roman will have delivered 20,000 terabytes! All of this data will provide a treasure trove of information to scientists for many years to come. | Illustration: J. Kang/STScI | Image | 406 KB | JPG | post_05 | https://stsci.box.com/s/5hf914jm0tnuxohtipwjeigtc31vnmkt | https://twitter.com/SpaceTelescope/status/1572985338041098240 |
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This simulated image illustrates the wide range of science enabled by Roman's extremely wide field of view and exquisite resolution. The purple squares, which all contain background imagery simulated using data from Hubble’s Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Survey (CANDELS) program, outline the area Roman can capture in a single observation. An orange square shows the field of view of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 for comparison. While the CANDELS program took Hubble nearly 21 days to survey in near-infrared light, Roman’s large field of view and higher efficiency would allow it to survey the same area in less than half an hour. Top left: This view illustrates a region of the large nearby spiral galaxy M83. Top right: A hypothetical distant dwarf galaxy appears in this magnified view, demonstrating Roman’s ability to detect small, faint galaxies at large distances. Bottom left: This magnified view illustrates how Roman will be able to resolve bright stars even in the dense cores of globular star clusters. Bottom right: A zoom of the CANDELS-based background shows the density of high-redshift galaxies Roman will detect. Credit: Benjamin Williams, David Weinberg, Anil Seth, Eric Bell, Dave Sand, Dominic Benford, and the WINGS Science Investigation Team | Image | PNG |
This simulated image illustrates the wide range of science enabled by Roman's extremely wide field of view and exquisite resolution. The purple squares, which all contain background imagery simulated using data from Hubble’s Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Survey (CANDELS) program, outline the area Roman can capture in a single observation. An orange square shows the field of view of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 for comparison. While the CANDELS program took Hubble nearly 21 days to survey in near-infrared light, Roman’s large field of view and higher efficiency would allow it to survey the same area in less than half an hour. Top left: This view illustrates a region of the large nearby spiral galaxy M83. Top right: A hypothetical distant dwarf galaxy appears in this magnified view, demonstrating Roman’s ability to detect small, faint galaxies at large distances. Bottom left: This magnified view illustrates how Roman will be able to resolve bright stars even in the dense cores of globular star clusters. Bottom right: A zoom of the CANDELS-based background shows the density of high-redshift galaxies Roman will detect. | Credit: Benjamin Williams, David Weinberg, Anil Seth, Eric Bell, Dave Sand, Dominic Benford, and the WINGS Science Investigation Team | Image | PNG |
This simulated image illustrates the wide range of science enabled by Roman's extremely wide field of view and exquisite resolution. The purple squares, which all contain background imagery simulated using data from Hubble’s Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Survey (CANDELS) program, outline the area Roman can capture in a single observation. An orange square shows the field of view of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 for comparison. While the CANDELS program took Hubble nearly 21 days to survey in near-infrared light, Roman’s large field of view and higher efficiency would allow it to survey the same area in less than half an hour. Top left: This view illustrates a region of the large nearby spiral galaxy M83. Top right: A hypothetical distant dwarf galaxy appears in this magnified view, demonstrating Roman’s ability to detect small, faint galaxies at large distances. Bottom left: This magnified view illustrates how Roman will be able to resolve bright stars even in the dense cores of globular star clusters. Bottom right: A zoom of the CANDELS-based background shows the density of high-redshift galaxies Roman will detect. | Credit: Benjamin Williams, David Weinberg, Anil Seth, Eric Bell, Dave Sand, Dominic Benford, and the WINGS Science Investigation Team | Image | PNG |
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Thumbnail | Working Name | Description | Credit | File Type | File Size | File Extension | Filename | File Location | Source Location | Comparison of Hubble, Webb, and Roman, including their unique strengths and synergies. | Credit: A. James (STScI) | Image | 32.4 MB | PNG | Roman-Hubble-Webb_comparisonComparison of observatories in the 2020s and their windows into the electromagnetic spectrum. Credit: A. James (STScI) | Image | 1.3 MB | JPG | many_observatories_wavelength_graph | https://stsci.box.com/s/1nbv554hcym2yjth9a5etnm9ebfzwqnq | NASA Astrophysics Fleet Mission Chart | Credit: NASA | image | 3.5 MB | PDF |
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