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'The mirror passed with flying colors': NASA just took its last look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before launch (www.space.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/astronomy@mander.xyz
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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They named a telescope after Nancy Grace?

[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Roman*. Ask an AI to make this picture look like she's a centurion to be accurate

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

named a telescope after Nancy Grace?

No, Nancy (Grace) Roman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Roman

astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and stellar motions

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 3 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Roman