Roman telescope's 300-megapixel camera activated; test image captures its first starlight

SpaceTelescope says the Wide Field Instrument is an infrared camera designed to explore wide swaths of the cosmos. Its first starlight image was taken to assess performance.

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At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.

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SpaceTelescope says Roman's Wide Field Instrument, a 300-megapixel infrared camera, has been activated. A test image captured the first photons of starlight to reach the instrument as part of a performance assessment.

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