Cape CanaveralRoman’s field of view is 100 times Hubble’s.
That width lets it measure dark energy statistically across billions of galaxies.
It also hunts exoplanets via microlensing, catching cold, distant worlds the transit method misses.
The telescope will settle into an L2 orbit, with first science data years away.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- positions Roman as completing Hubble's work—addressing dark matter and dark energy with 100x larger field of view
Sources: Phys.org