Unlocking Dark Energy: First Targets for the Roman Telescope

Did you know that everything you can see, from the screen in your hand to the moon in the sky, makes up less than five percent of the universe? The rest is a mystery that scientists call dark energy and dark matter. NASA is building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to find out why the universe is growing faster every second - this giant camera will take pictures with the same detail as Hubble but will cover an area 100 times larger in a single shot. You might wonder what this machine will look at first - The mission focuses on three main pillars to solve the dark energy puzzle. Engineers and astronomers designed these surveys to watch how the universe changed over billions of years. By looking at specific light patterns, you can see if dark energy stays the same or if it evolves as time passes.