"NASA's Roman Mission: Unveiling the Flickering Lights of the Milky Way"

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, will conduct a Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, monitoring hundreds of millions of stars in the Milky Way to detect flickers that indicate the presence of planets, distant stars, icy objects, black holes, and more. The mission aims to set a new record for the farthest-known exoplanet and explore the center of our galaxy, providing insights into different galactic neighborhoods and the formation and evolution of planetary systems. The survey will also study brown dwarfs, neutron stars, stellar-mass black holes, and Kuiper belt objects, while conducting stellar seismology studies on a million giant stars.