00:00Hi, I'm Anisha Ravissetti with space.com.
00:04Congratulations on the beautiful launch.
00:05It was such a treat to watch the first launch I ever saw.
00:09I think now I speak for many of us when I say we're looking forward to seeing the first results.
00:14So I'm curious if you have any specific targets that you're looking for first and what we can expect when
00:19we see those.
00:20And then I'm also, I think there's been a lot of talk comparing it to Hubble and James Webb,
00:25but I'm curious how it compares to some other surveys we have going on.
00:29Like DESE, maybe like the Euclid Space Telescope, like how it can collaborate with those and how the specs compare.
00:38So I'll hit your last bit first and then hand over so you can say all the wonderful things.
00:44But obviously we collaborate with all of the missions that we can.
00:49Euclid in particular has a very, very big field of view, even bigger than Roman's.
00:53But with Roman, you know, we can use some of their surveys, do our own surveys.
01:00We have, you know, very, we have the same sensitivity as, actually better sensitivity even than Hubble.
01:05So, you know, we do, I think about it as everybody has their own unique role.
01:10But when you put that together, and so with, you know, Vera Rubin, with Roman, with Euclid, with Webb, the
01:20idea of looking in the different wavelengths.
01:22Sometimes you see the images.
01:23I know the Pillars of Creation is a great example.
01:26You look at it in the Hubble image and it looks sort of, you know, like really beautiful.
01:30And then you look at the Webb image and it looks like it's got, like, angry claws.
01:33And that's because, you know, things like the dust there absorbs visible UV and then emits infrared.
01:42And so we're going to be seeing very different things when we look with, you know, these different telescopes.
01:48And it's really important to do that because that's how you build up the whole picture.
01:52And so, you know, one of the expressions Julie has used is building, like, 3D maps of the universe and
01:57then being able to watch the way that universe changes over time.
02:01And so having all of these, it's kind of like layering paint on a canvas.
02:06You layer the data and it just really unlocks the secrets of the universe.
02:13So I've forgotten the first half of your question, but I want to add a little to what Nikki has
02:18just said.
02:19So Roman, Ruben and Euclid, they're siblings.
02:26They were all proposed, prioritized at the same time.
02:30So the design of each of those observatories has been in the knowledge of knowing what the other ones were
02:35doing.
02:36So from the beginning, they have been designed to be synergistic.
02:40There are choices we made on Roman because we knew what Ruben was going to provide.
02:45The way that we conduct the observations are also synergistic.
02:50There is a reason that most of Roman observations are in the southern hemisphere, and that's to maximize the overlap
02:56with Ruben.
02:57We're not competitors.
02:58We're stronger together, and we both need each other.
03:02Our synergies with the pointed mode observations take a different tone.
03:06When we talk about surveying the sky a thousand times faster than Hubble, it doesn't mean that we're making Hubble
03:11obsolete.
03:12Roman is going to do what Roman does really well, which is to sweep out large regions of the sky.
03:17We still need Hubble to be doing what Hubble does really well because Roman isn't going to be doing that.
03:22I mean, and it's not, you know, even in the place where we have overlapping wavelength coverage, and of course,
03:28Hubble adds extra capability in the ultraviolet.
03:33It adds, it has, you know, some narrowband filters.
03:36There are things that Hubble can do that aren't duplicated on any of our other observatories.
03:43In some senses, you know, some of what Roman is going to do is to provide a finding chart.
03:49You know, I mentioned, you know, one of the things I think of is that, you know, we're redefining what
03:54it means to find a needle in a haystack.
03:55And when we find those needles, Hubble and Webb can then follow up while Roman continues to go off and
04:02find new things.
