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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision ‘Eyes’

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches in the mid-2020s, these devices will convert starlight into electrical signals, which will then be decoded into 300-megapixel images of large patches of the sky. These images will allow astronomers to explore ...

Troy Oakes

A technician holds one of Roman's detectors.