Engineers have fine‑tuned the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, moving a mirror by just one‑sixteenth the width of a human hair. This minuscule adjustment brought the telescope’s Wide Field Instrument into near‑perfect alignment, resulting in image quality about 30% better than originally forecast. The enhanced performance will enable sharper views of distant galaxies, improve measurements of dark energy, and broaden the telescope’s capacity for discovering exoplanets and transient phenomena. Watching next: the upcoming data releases that will showcase the telescope’s upgraded capability, and how the improved imaging will feed into major upcoming surveys such as the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time. [[1]]
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