NASA's next great space telescope finally has a name

NASA named its new space telescope after Nancy Grace Roman, the "Mother of Hubble." The telescope will have greater capabilities than Hubble and will be specially tuned to hunt for nearby exoplanets. Nancy Grace Roman was the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA and is considered to be instrumental in the Hubble program. Visit BGR's homepage for more stories. We don't like to admit it, but NASA's Hubble Space Telescope won't be around forever. Sure, the joint NASA/ESA partnership th...