NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to unravel the secrets of dark energy

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A team of scientists has forecast the scientific impact of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s High Latitude Wide Area Survey on critical questions in cosmology. This observation program will consist of both imaging, which reveals the locations, shapes, sizes, and colors of objects like distant galaxies, and spectroscopy, which involves measuring the intensity of light from those objects at different wavelengths, across the same enormous swath of the universe.

When it begins work in 2027, Roman will yield results that would be impossible to achieve using existing telescopes. Its impact will be further enhanced by teaming up with other new facilities like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a novel wide-field telescope now being built on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile. Scheduled to begin full operations by 2024, Rubin’s planned 10-year survey extends across Roman’s five-year primary mission.

Source - https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-era-of-cosmological-discovery-nasas-roman-space-telescope-to-unravel-the-secrets-of-dark-energy-and-dark-matter/

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Slightly misleading. They HOPE to gain insignts doesnt mean they will.

 

Many previous attempts to learn about dark energy and darkmatter ended up in failure, theyve both remained rather elusive

 

Some newer propositions even suggest dark matter maybe doesnt exist after all and that the reason we think it does is because or understanding of how gravity works is either wrong or incomplete and thats why equations come up with numbers that say there has to be more matter

 

Either way, this is bound to be fascinating. Both dark energy and dark matter fascinate me... especially dark energy. The idea of space itself expanding is mind boggling 

 

I saw an hour long documentry with astro physicists disecting what space itself might be based on its characteristics and long story short scientists have no idea or consensus on it, its one of the biggest scientific mysteries

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The new telescope is meant to work hand in hand with another already existing telescope (Rubin Observatory) https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/507/1/1514/6155044?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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Dan Brown is gonna have a field day with this