Mon, Jul 20
|801 E St NW
Profs & Pints DC: NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen
a look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its mission to expand our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and the Milky Way, with Bear Witherspoon, payload systems engineer for the Roman telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
Time & Location
Jul 20, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
801 E St NW, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen,” a look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its mission to expand our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and the Milky Way, with Bear Witherspoon, payload systems engineer for the Roman telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to be launched into space in late summer or early fall, and what it sees out there is likely to leave us spellbound.
Its to-do list includes performing a demographic census of planetary systems in the Milky Way, testing out a new camera that directly images exoplanets to help us find habitable worlds, and shedding light on the universe's most mysterious features—dark energy and dark matter.
Come get an insider’s perspective on that mission from Bear Witherspoon, who has overseen the assembly of the telescope and will be part…