On a Sunday morning in late August 2026, humanity extended its gaze a million miles deeper into the unknown, as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope rose from Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. Named for the woman who helped bring Hubble into existence, Roman carries forward a lineage of cosmic curiosity — this time armed with infrared vision a hundred times wider than its predecessor, tasked with mapping the invisible architecture of the universe: dark energy, dark matter, and the billions of galaxies that compose the fabric of everything we do not yet understand. It is, in t