Roman Coloring Pages

Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer, smiles out at us from our first color page. She’s considered the mother of our Hubble Space Telescope because she helped everyone understand why it was important to have observatories in space – not just on the ground. If it weren’t for her, Hubble might not have ever become a reality.

The Roman Space Telescope is named after her to honor the legacy she left behind when she died in 2018. Thanks to Nancy Grace Roman, we’ve taken countless pictures of space from orbiting telescopes and learned so much more about the universe than we could have possibly known otherwise!

The second color page illustrates some of the exciting science topics the Roman Space Telescope will explore. Set to launch in the mid-2020s, the mission will view the universe in infrared light, which is like using heat vision. We’ll be able to peer through clouds of dust and see things that are much farther away.

We anticipate all kinds of discoveries from the edge of our solar system to the farthest reaches of space. This color page highlights a few of the things the Roman Space Telescope will help us learn more about. The mission will find thousands of planets beyond our solar system and hundreds of millions of galaxies. It will also help us unravel the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, represented by the gray web-like pattern in the background. With so much exciting new data, who knows what else we may learn?

Animated GIF of the coloring page being filled in.

Nancy Grace Roman stands at the control display for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory spacecraft in this simulated watercolor image.

Watercolor effect generated with Waterlogue by Tinrocket.

Nancy Grace Roman stands at the control display for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory spacecraft in this animated GIF of a simulated watercolor image.

Watercolor effect generated with Waterlogue by Tinrocket.