In the waning days of August 2026, humanity extended its eyes a little further into the dark, launching the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Florida's Kennedy Space Centre aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Born from a repurposed spy satellite and four billion dollars of collective ambition, Roman will spend at least five years charting the invisible architecture of the cosmos — the dark matter and dark energy that together constitute 95 percent of everything that exists. It is a mission less about looking deeper than looking wider, offering science not a keyhole but a panorama, and asking no