From Kennedy Space Center on a Sunday morning, humanity extended its gaze into the cosmos once more — this time with a wide-angle eye. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, born of years of scientific ambition and political perseverance, now travels toward a gravitational waypoint a million miles from Earth, where it will spend years mapping the invisible architecture of the universe. In cataloguing two billion galaxies and searching for distant worlds, Roman does not merely add to what we know — it asks what we have never been able to ask at this scale: what is the nature of the 95 percent o