ALT A top-down image of part of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope covered in shiny, metallic material. A handful of people wearing clean room attire stand are standing next to the telescope. Credit: NASA

ALT Katalyst Space engineers stabilize their LINK robotic servicing spacecraft as it moves into a vibration chamber at NASA Goddard on April 15, 2026. Two people in white clean suits and hair and beard nets stand in the center of this photograph. They each have a gloved hand on the bottom of a silver spacecraft. The spacecraft is suspended from a frame and is being moved into a large chamber by a crane that is out of view. Two more people on the right and left edges of the photo look on. Another person, also in a clean suit and wearing a black helmet, stands next to a railing and holds a crane operator box. The chamber is lit from below. The image is watermarked “Credit: NASA/Scott Wiessinger.”

ALT A globular cluster. It holds many thousands of bright stars, tightly packed in the center and spread out in its outer regions, but filling the entire view. The stars are colored either orange or bright blue, with the blue stars mainly concentrated in the center. Orange stars are located mainly around the edge and vary in size from small dots to glowing stars with four points, based on their position in the foreground or background of the cluster.

ALT Artist’s rendering of a reddish-brown dwarf orbiting a bright white star against the backdrop of the Milky Way, with dense fields of stars stretching across the night sky. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld. Acknowledgement: William Pendrill.

ALT A person in a head-to-toe white cleanroom suit holds a large purple "boarding pass" for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in Goddard's large cleanroom. To the right of the person is a large half cylinder white shaped container with the telescope inside and to the left is a banner that has the NASA Goddard logo.

ALT A glowing galaxy shines at the center of the image, surrounded by star-studded black space. The galaxy glows bright white and blue, but has swirling dark brown dust covering its center.

ALT A field of galaxies against the black background of space. In the center is a bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of the Abell S1063 galaxy cluster. Around the core are short, curved red lines, which are distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with Webb’s signature eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Toward the very bottom, slightly off center toward the right, is a small red dot that is highlighted by an orange square outline. A larger orange square in the top right corner shows the object in more detail. The object, labeled “GLIMPSE-17775” looks like a fuzzy red dot with a yellow core.

ALT Astronaut Jessica Meir inspects optical fibers while installing hardware updates to NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, or CAL, aboard the International Space Station on May 8, 2026. About the size of a minifridge, CAL enables researchers to explore quantum physics.

ALT Image by ESA's Euclid providing an earlier snapshot of a region of our galaxy that Roman will repeatedly observe in the upcoming years. The color ombres like a sunset, from dark maroon in the upper left to a lighter orange and then yellow in the lower right. At the right of the frame, thick molecular clouds appear as dark patches that obscure parts of the galactic bulge beyond. Toward the left, the view rises to higher galactic latitudes: the yellow glow of the bulge becomes clearer, with fewer and more isolated foreground clouds interrupting the starlight.

ALT An illustration of exoplanets TOI-791 b (left) and c orbiting their host star amidst a dark sky speckled with stars. Both planets are blue and brightly lit on their left sides by their star, which is depicted as a glowing yellow orb. The right side of each planet is darkly shadowed. Though both planets are similar in size, the one on the right is closer and appears much larger. The top of this planet is marbled with wispy white clouds. The image is watermarked with “Artist’s concept” and “Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter.”

ALT Illustrations of puffy exoplanets TOI-791 b (left) and c are compared to familiar planets from our solar system. The top of the image, labeled “TOI-791 Exoplanets Comparison,” shows TOI-791 b and c as bright blue planets. Planet c is slightly larger, darker, and has a few wispy white clouds at its top. Below, images of Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter are lined up in order of size for comparison. TOI-791 b is about the same size as Jupiter, but TOI-791 c is slightly larger. The image is watermarked with “Artist’s concept” and “Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter.”

ALT Side view of Roman's optical telescope assembly. The assembly looks like the tip of a dull pencil. The primary mirror is a shiny, silver circle, like a CD. Six black struts extend from the edge of the primary mirror to a black cylinder, which houses the secondary mirror.

ALT A ground-based photo of the full Trifid Nebula is shown on the left half with an inset image from the Hubble Space Telescope at right. At left, an irregular mostly opaque circle takes up the majority of the view. The circle has a bright pink interior crossed with a few dark, jagged dust lanes. A significant region around that appears blue. The edges have shades of orange and brown, with the star-filled black background of space peeking through. Hubble’s close-up is outlined just below center to the left. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns.

ALT A dense field of tiny stars fills this square image taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The lower and central areas are dominated by bright yellow and gold colours, forming a textured background similar to fine glitter or sand. Dark brown and black patches cut irregularly through the yellow regions, like ink stains or clouds of smoke. Toward the upper left, the colours shift to purple and reddish tones, blending gently into the surrounding star field. Small blue points of light are scattered across the image.