Astronomer Trevor Weiss visits the Costa Mesa planetarium Friday to explore the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Orange County residents can get an early look at one of NASA’s most ambitious upcoming astronomy missions Friday at the Orange Coast College Planetarium.
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Astronomer Trevor Weiss of New Mexico State University will present “The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: A Wider View of the Universe” as part of OCC’s Skylark Speaker Series.
A much wider view of space
The Roman Space Telescope is designed to combine near-infrared observations with a field of view roughly 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope’s.
That capability will allow astronomers to survey enormous portions of the sky and build catalogs of exoplanets, stars and galaxies. Weiss will explain the telescope’s planned surveys and scientific capabilities.
