The powerful space telescope will take a vastly wider look at the universe than Hubble or the James Webb Space Telescope, potentially helping to unravel pressing cosmic mysteries.
, the substance that is almost completely invisible despite composing around 85% of the matter in the cosmos.
This creates a tapestry of the universe with a web-like structure extending for hundreds of millions of light-years that can only be seen with an incredibly broad view. Yet this picture would look very different to astronomers if they could view it as it appeared much earlier in the universe's 13.7-billion-year history.
View of the 2.4-meter primary mirror of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the next flagship observatory to fly after Webb.
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