My iPhone camera is 48 Megapixels which is exactly three times that of the 16 Megapixel Hubble Telescope launched in 1990 which is taking photographs of the Cosmos for the education of mankind while i am using mine to take pictures of our cat so arguably not so important to warrant the high quality although it is 15MP less than the James Webb Telescope launched in 2021.
Now we have another camera telling the Universe to say Cheese because the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on it's way beyond the Moon and that has a whopping 300 Megapixel camera onboard which would take some amazing cat pictures.
NASA are saying that the extremely wide angle high definition images of the universe from the telescope will be so vast that there's not a 4K TV on Earth capable of showing it all so i'm guessing that is next on the NASA to-do list because it is due to do a survey of our own Milky Way galaxy and find 20 billion stars so that's a really big screen required.
As well as the ultra-high definition camera equipment, it is also carrying the first active coronagraph to be used in space, which blocks out the bright light of a star so researchers can observe the Corona and see what that reveals.
The Roman Space Telescope is named after NASA's first female chief astronomer Nancy Grace Roman who was the main advocate of telescopes in Space and convinced Congress to fund one which led to the Hubble and later telescopes queuing up on the other side of the Moon, well away from the light of the Earth and it's satellite.
The journey to its place which will keep it constantly on the night side of the Earth is an estimated 90 days and the telescope’s first images are expected in early 2027 which doesn't give them much time to invent the television to look at them on so that's your next job eggheads.
Monday, 31 August 2026
Gonna Need A Bigger Tele
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