NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has passed its fine-guidance tests, and its Coronagraph Instrument has captured its first light, two key steps on the way to imaging distant planets.
Nancy Grace Roman, a renowned astronomer who led the drive to launch the Hubble Space Telescope, died on Dec. 25 at the age of 93, according to the Associated Press. Roman was nicknamed "the mother of Hubble" for her work on... Continue Reading →