Cosmic Perspectives from Amid the Stars:
Astronomy Blog

We’re about to get a whole new perspective of the universe. On August 30, 2026, NASA plans to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the newest telescope in a lineage including Hubble and Webb. With its specialized design and new technology, the Roman Telescope is poised to change the way we view the cosmos.

We live in a universe that is 13.8 billion years old. But how much longer does it have left? And how will the universe meet its ultimate end? We can’t yet know for sure how the universe will end, but we can use our current understanding of the cosmos to predict what might happen.

The universe encompasses everything we know to exist. Time itself only has meaning within the universe. It’s impossible to imagine that the universe may have once not existed at all, and yet, that’s the current consensus among cosmologists. The Big Bang is the most widely accepted theory for how the universe began.