Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will launch in 2027. It will have a best-in-class coronagraph that should revolutionise exoplanet astronomy. How exactly will it work? Finding out with Dr Vanessa Bailey from NASA JPL.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:04 Nancy Grace Roman Telescope

• 06:59 Coronagraph

• 21:06 What will Roman see

• 28:05 Direct observations of exoplanets

• 31:25 Best-case scenario

• 38:08 Not just planets

• 40:56 Future coronagraphs

• 51:03 Current obsessions

• 55:21 More interviews

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