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  1. Roman Science Operations Center Newsletter

    June 2025

    The Science Operation Center is hard at work preparing for the Cycle 1 Call for Proposals in Fall 2025. The expected date for the telescope launch is currently October 2026 and no later than May 2027. STScI will host a symposium on "Cosmic Cartography" on July 14-18 in Baltimore, MD. Registrations close on June 9. Several Roman events will be held at the upcoming AAS meeting #246 in Anchorage, AK. Meanwhile, the SpaceCraft + Integrated Payload Assembly (SCIPA) has been undergoing tests at the Goddard Space Flight Center in preparation for the thermal vacuum testing in late Summer 2025.

    A pattern of light blue lines on a dark background is repeated into a mandala pattern.

  2. Roman Science Operations Center Newsletter

    March 2025

    The Roman telescope is getting assembled at Goddard. Instruments and telescope are integrated and the deployable aperture cover has been successfully installed. The Core Community Survey Definition Committees have produced their reports and the Roman Observation Time Allocation Committee has started reviewing them. The Roman Research Nexus is in full development and testing continues. The next Roman Science Conference on "Cosmic Cartography" will be held in Baltimore on July 14-18 and abstracts are accepted until March 28.

  3. Roman Science Operations Center Newsletter

    December 2024

    Roman’s Wide Field Instrument arrived at Goddard last summer. The Core Community Survey Definition Committees have worked on their recommendations and the Roman Observation Time Allocation Committee will soon start reviewing them. Several members of the SOC will be at the winter AAS in National Harbor; we hope to see you in person soon!

    Artist’s concept of spiral galaxy at the center of a much larger spherical halo of stars, with ground-based photograph pulled out to show details of the central core and spiral arms. View of the galaxy is halfway between face-on and edge-on, with disk oriented 45 degrees counter-clockwise from horizontal. Artist’s Concept: Galaxy core is whitish yellow, circled by a brownish purple disk. Grainy white halo enveloping the disk is dense and bright near the center, becoming more diffuse and fading out with distance from the main disk. Halo is mottled with a wispy cloud-like appearance, suggesting variations in density of stars. Halo covers an area of sky about 250 times greater than main disk. Photo: Telescope zoom into galaxy core and disk, outlined in yellow, shows brown dust lanes tracing spiral arms that wrap clockwise around fuzzy core; cloud-like patches of blue and red; star-like points of light of various size and brightness. Galaxy is 45 times larger in zoom than in illustration.

  4. Roman Science Operations Center Newsletter

    June 2024

    Roman’s Wide Field Instrument is completing its thermal vacuum tests and will join the telescope at Goddard later this summer. It’s time to plan the community-defined surveys, including a Galactic Plane General Astrophysics Survey, and you can help! A recent STScI newsletter summarizes how you can get involved. Members of the SOC will be at the summer AAS in Madison, and in July (9-12), please consider joining the next Roman Science Conference at IPAC. We hope to see you in person soon.

    An illustration of a star being torn apart by a black hole. To the right of center, there is a black sphere representing a black hole, surrounded by many thick wisps of light. To the left of it, there is a fuzzy, bright white object representing a star. The star has a tail of gas coming off its right, which is brightest near the star, but becomes grayer further away. This tail flows into the black hole’s right side and swirls around the black hole in a horizontal disk. The disk is thicker toward its center and more diffuse farther away. Material in the disk also appears to wrap around the top of the black hole. Above and below the black hole, there are purple rays of light that extend upward and downward in two broad cones. This scene sits amid a black backdrop of space with many dim, white stars in the background.

The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is managed by NASA/GSFC with participation of STScI, Caltech/IPAC, and NASA/JPL.

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