New NASA telescope will capture cosmic explosions older than the Milky Way

A new NASA telescope won’t just look at stars – it’s going to film them exploding in a way we’ve never seen before.

Some of those ‘cosmic fireworks’ will be older than our entire galaxy, too.

Launching in 2027, NASA’s new space telescope is being built to capture the most dramatic events in the universe and turn them into movies – literally.

From dying stars to black holes tearing suns apart, it’s all going to be caught on camera.

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NASA telescope will film explosions from 11.5 billion years ago

It’s called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – named after the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA – and it’ll launch into orbit with a very exciting job: capture time-lapse footage of how things explode in space.

To do this, the telescope will scan the same part of the sky every five days for two years as part of NASA’s High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey. 

Those snapshots will then be stitched into movies, showing in real time how stars flare, burst, and disappear.

NASA expects it to spot around 100,000 cosmic explosions.

The main goal? To track Type Ia supernovae – a specific kind of star explosion that helps scientists measure distances across the universe. 

The telescope will spot an estimated 27,000 of these – more than all previous surveys combined.

Even more impressive: some of these supernovae will be over 10 billion years old, with dozens dating back 11.5 billion years.

That means we’ll be watching explosions that happened long before the Milky Way existed – further back than anything we’ve ever observed.

It’ll also catch around 60,000 core-collapse supernovae, dozens of star-shredding black hole events, about 90 super-bright supernovae, and possibly the first-ever pair-instability blast – caused when a star’s own gravity can’t hold it together.

Oh, and maybe a kilonova – one of the rarest space events, triggered when two neutron stars collide. We’ve only ever seen that happen once.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could also find a billion galaxies and 100,000 new planets

While the explosion movies are a big deal, they’re just one part of a three-survey investigation the Roman telescope will carry out.

Another mission will scan deep space to capture images of over a billion galaxies, helping astronomers trace how they’ve evolved.

A third mission will aim the telescope at the dense heart of the Milky Way and use a technique called microlensing to search for planets. 

Scientists believe the Roman telescope could uncover up to 100,000 previously unknown worlds – no word yet on whether any of them come with extra-terrestrial occupants.

Altogether, this NASA telescope will spend 75 percent of its first five years on these three mega-surveys.

The rest of its time will be saved for whatever new discoveries come along – and this is one of those rare cases where the sky in fact isn’t the limit.

NASA isn’t just launching a telescope – it’s launching a machine built to unlock the secrets of deep time and deep space.

The findings of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could reshape our species’ understanding of dark energy, early stars, and black hole activity.

And it all starts with the next big bang.

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