# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DL7mvATMAsI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32265011-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-10T15:01:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

We’ve got our shades on for summer 😎☀️⁣

NASA technicians recently installed our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s solar array Sun shield — the set of solar panels that will travel with Roman a million miles away into space! These panels will power the entire observatory and help keep the instruments cool by shading them from sunlight.⁣
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Together with Roman’s visor-like sunshade and outer barrel assembly — which will house the telescope and instruments — the solar array Sun shield will soon undergo testing to ensure a successful launch.⁣

The team is on track to connect Roman’s two halves in November, resulting in a complete observatory by the end of the year. Roman remains on schedule for launch by May 2027, with the team aiming for as early as fall 2026.⁣
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Once in space, Roman’s large, crisp view will unveil more than 100,000 distant worlds, 100 million stars, more than a billion galaxies, and countless other cosmic objects, gathering clues to mysteries like dark energy and dark matter. We stand poised at the brink of unfathomable scientific discovery.⁣
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Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts⁣

Music: “Turbulent Grace,” Tom Samson [PRS], Nick Reeves [PRS], and Graham Harding [PRS], Universal Production Music⁣
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Video description is in the comments.  #nasa #nasaroman #space #universe #telescope

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