Sep, 18, 2023
The Roman Space Telescope to be launched in 2027 to discover the true nature of dark energy
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (or Roman for short), an observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics, is planned to be launched in 2027. A research group focused on supernovae, in which researcher Lluís Galbany, from the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) participates, has been awarded $11 million to develop the tools needed to utilise as cosmological probes the thousands of supernovae (exploding stars) that Roman will discover, and constrain the true nature of the mysterious dark energy that permeates our Universe.