Julie McEnery

Roman's vast reach will allow us to find the weird, the rare and the unusual,

• senior project scientist Julie McEnery said on the eve of launch
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• senior project scientist Julie McEnery said on Saturday
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• McEnery said on the eve of launch
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Webb is designed to be able to probe very deeply and with exquisite sensitivity into the universe, so we can find rare things in the early universe,

• McEnery said,
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• McEnery told an earlier briefing,
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We’re going to be surveying patches of the sky going back over and over and over again to find new things that go bump in the night,

• McEnery said
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What makes me most excited about Roman is the discovery potential. With 2 billion galaxies, we'll have 2,000 objects that are one-in-a-million,

• said Julie McEnery, senior project scientist
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The scope is extraordinary. We will do a survey of our own Milky Way galaxy and find 20 billion stars. That would make it the largest catalog of astronomical objects that's ever been produced,

• Roman senior scientist Julie McEnery highlighted the scope of that capability during NASA's live launch commentary, saying... according to Space.com
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Roman has broadly the same sensitivity and sharpness of vision as Hubble, but we survey the sky much faster,

• Julie McEnery, Roman’s senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland told reporters at a briefing in July, adding
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