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Aug 31, 2026
Luke VargasHOST
From its future orbit about a million miles from Earth, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a range of view at least a hundred times larger than the Hubble Observatory, thanks in part to repurposed spy gear.
Luke VargasHOST
Senior project scientist Julie McEnery said the tech will enable the telescope to potentially measure light from a billion galaxies.
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Roman is going to understand or give us the data that we need to understand the nature of the universe we live in.
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What we can do is we can make measurements of billions of galaxies.
Keegan BillingsHOST
He said this new one will help us understand that remaining 95%.
Keegan BillingsHOST
And more, Julie McEnery, Roman Telescope senior project scientist at NASA said, at any instance, Roman will see more than 100 times the amount of sky that Hubble can see.
Keegan BillingsHOST
She said Roman will move and stop and be ready to take the next image very quickly, so we can survey the galaxy more than a thousand times faster than Hubble.
Keegan BillingsHOST
She added, put this into context.
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We're going to see the sky in a new way
Philip Lee-ShanokCORRESPONDENT
Astrophysicist Julie McEnery is the project's senior scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Philip Lee-ShanokCORRESPONDENT
She says the telescope is named after a pioneering astrophysicist who in 1959 theorized a way to directly observe distant planets
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So she wrote down the calculation, and she basically said, "It's clearly ridiculous.
Gina Louise PhillipsHOST
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists probe the nature of dark matter and look for exoplanets.
Gina Louise PhillipsHOST
Julie McEnery is the senior scientist on Project Roman.
Julie McEnerySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm looking forward to the next few months when we turn things on, figure out how well things, uh, work, actually get to play with, well, play, use, find, um, [laughs] uh, this, uh, this observatory, this telescope, these instruments in space, in its, the environment that it's designed for, and then the science is gonna come rolling in.
Gina Louise PhillipsHOST
And that is The World This Hour.
Gina Louise PhillipsHOST
From there, it will help scientists probe the nature of dark matter and look for exoplanets.
Gina Louise PhillipsHOST
Julie McEnery is the senior scientist on Project Roman.
Julie McEnerySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm looking forward to the next few months when we turn things on, figure out how well things, uh, work, actually get to play with, well, play, use, find, um, uh, this, uh, this observatory, this telescope, these instruments.
Gina Louise PhillipsHOST
[outro music] And that is The World This Hour.
Mamoun AzeemHOST
NASA says it will also create the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the universe yet, surveying more than two billion galaxies.
Mamoun AzeemHOST
Project scientist Julie McEnery said the launch was a starting point for the scientists.
Mamoun AzeemHOST
The telescope is expected to send its first high-resolution images before the winter holidays around the world.
Mamoun AzeemHOST
Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has called on Gulf states to unite against what he described as their real enemy.
Joe PalcaGUEST
it has a much wider field of view, so it can see a much broader swath of the sky.
Joe PalcaGUEST
And Julie McEnery says there's another key difference.
Joe PalcaGUEST
Julie is Roman's project scientist, and at a recent news conference, she said that one of the observations the telescope will make is a survey of all the stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Julie McEnerySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Roman has broadly the same sensitivity and sharpness of vision as Hubble, but we survey the sky much faster.
Regina BarberHOST
People got degrees from that, that data.
Joe PalcaGUEST
Yeah.
Joe PalcaGUEST
Anybody can get it, and I, and when, when I say anybody, J- Julie McEnery says, "Yeah, really anybody."
Julie McEnerySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You can be a, a teacher in a high school in Kentucky, and your students have the opportunity to see Roman data, new Roman data-
Andrew RennieHOST
As mentioned, the Roman Space Telescope has had some notable predecessor, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, each of them doing very different but related jobs.
Andrew RennieHOST
Julie McEnery is the Senior Project Scientist on the Roman Space Telescope.
Andrew RennieHOST
She works at the Goddard Space Flight Centre and works She has all the details about it.
Julie McEnerySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
After more than 30 years of observations, Hubble continues to revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
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Julie McEnerySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Less well known is that in 1959, she was one of the first people to suggest using a space-based observatory to look at planets around other stars.
Julie McEnerySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Dr. Roman felt that such an observatory would be too big and too difficult to be feasible in orbit, But with developments from Hubble, Webb and soon Roman, this is now within reach.
Andrew RennieHOST
Speaking two years ago, that was Julie McEnery, the Senior Project Scientist for the Roman Space Telescope.
Andrew RennieHOST
And as you heard earlier in the show from John Rhys-Davies, the telescope is now completed and awaiting launch at the Kennedy Space Center.
Jacob PinterHOST
This episode is also available as a video on select platforms.
Jacob PinterHOST
You can not only hang out with NASA scientist Julie McEnery, who you're about to meet, but also see behind-the-scenes footage of the Roman Space Telescope's assembly, plus graphics and animations that help bring the science to life.
Jacob PinterHOST
If you're listening in a podcast app that supports video, you can watch it right there.
Jacob PinterHOST
You can also find the video on YouTube.
Sophia RobertsHOST
I have been in the clean room watching this telescope come to life over the last few years.
Sophia RobertsHOST
I have interviewed plenty of people who are testing it and constructing it, and I am personally so excited to see the universe through Roman's eyes.
Sophia RobertsHOST
In this episode, we're going to dive deep into Roman with Julie McEnery.
Sophia RobertsHOST
She's a senior project scientist.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
The launch of the most powerful survey telescope ever built is just days away.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
Today we're talking about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with two of the scientists leading the mission, Jason Rhodes, the Roman Project Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Julie McEnery, the Senior Project Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
Then Bruce Betts, our chief scientist at the Planetary Society, joins me for What's Up.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
We'll talk about the technology that could one day help us find Earth-like worlds around other stars, coronagraphs.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
And over its mission, it's expected to discover thousands of new worlds, radically expanding our census of exoplanets.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
I sat down with two of the mission's project scientists to talk about what's coming.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
Dr. Julie McEnery is the Senior Project Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which leads the Roman Mission.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
Before Roman, she spent years as the project scientist for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, studying some of the most energetic and violent events in the universe.