On a Sunday morning in late August, humanity extended its gaze a little further into the unknown, as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted from Kennedy Space Centre aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket and began its three-month journey to a gravitational waypoint 1.6 million kilometers from Earth. Named for the woman who first imagined telescopes freed from the blur of atmosphere, the $4.3 billion observatory carries instruments designed not merely to observe the cosmos, but to interrogate its deepest silences — the dark energy pulling galaxies apart, the dark matter holding them together, and