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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

NASA is working on several advanced generation telescopes

 NASA's mighty Roman Telescope will go far, will discover a million new worlds and many super-Earths



This technique is used when a planet passes between the star and the observer. According to NASA, 'Transit shows that an exoplanet is coming out in front of a star which reduces its illumination.


The US space agency NASA is working on several advanced generation telescopes, one of which is the Great Roman Space Telescope. Astronomers hope that it will be able to discover thousands of new worlds. It is expected that it will be launched by the middle of next year and many Super-Earths will be discovered. Super Earth is believed to be larger and massier than Earth. Apart from these, there are planets like 'Chota-Varuna' which are 4-8 times smaller than the Earth. Roman is named Nancy Grace Roman.


Nancy is called the mother of the Hubble Space telescope.

Planets in space



These superpowered telescopes can also detect such huge planets which are made of gas. They are like Jupiter and Saturn and also like the icy Arun planet. New telescopes will discover new planets with the help of microlensing. They monitor the impact of giant objects on light. With the help of this technique, astronomers can understand whether these planets are orbiting a star in space.


The Roman telescope will also use the traditional transit method. This technique is used when a planet passes between the star and the observer. According to NASA, 'Transit shows that an exoplanet is coming out in front of a star which reduces its illumination. This planet cannot be seen directly. ' Lecturer Ben Monte of the University of New South Wales says that microlensing events are rare and occur rapidly. For this, many stars have to be seen again and again and their brightness has to be measured so that they can be detected.


What planets are you looking for?



With the help of microlensing, such planets can also be observed which do not revolve around a star and move around in space. Some of the discovered planets fall into an area where life is possible. Where there is neither too much heat nor too much cold. The Romans will also be able to see 26 thousand light-years away planets. The Kepler Space Telescope can see up to two thousand light years away, whose mission is now over.

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