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The US astronomer battled discrimination in a male dominated field.
In August 2018, just four months before she died, I had the great fortune to interview Nancy Grace Roman about her extraordinary life studying the stars.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will take a broad survey of space and use it to create a map of the universe.
The Nancy Grace Roman telescope will probe dark energy and discover exoplanets.
The US, China, India, Europe and Japan all have exciting missions on the horizon in 2026. Many of them are collaborative feats.
Cosmology could be transformed by a new wave of telescopes – both on the ground and in space.
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Federal Astrophysicist and External Relations Lead at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution
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Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Surrey
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Professor of astrophysics (dark matter and cosmology), Durham University
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Professor and Director of the Center for Detectors and Future Photon Initiative at RIT, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Laureate Professor, Director of Sydney Institute for Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney
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Research Associate Professor of Physics, American University