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Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center

Release date: Monday, May 11, 2026 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center



This large-scale program provides a springboard to help interpret future Roman data.

One of the core community surveys of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, is expected to locate over a thousand exoplanets that orbit far away from their stars, beyond the orbital distance of Earth from the Sun. Although Roman hasn’t launched yet, astronomers already are gathering useful supporting data by utilizing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which could assist astronomers in analyzing Roman data.



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