Brendan Byrne
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365 appearances
43 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 31 Aug
Brendan Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What a glorious dawn launch.
Um and uh and the ride was magnificent.
Just hours after liftoff, the spacecraft began opening its solar panels and other instruments and is performing as expected.
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It will take Roman about three months to get to its final destination in space, with the first observations coming before the end of the year.
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The observatory is on the hunt for dark matter and dark energy, which could change our understanding of how the universe works.
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It's also expected to identify over 100,000 planets orbiting other stars.
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For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne.
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Just hours after liftoff, the spacecraft began opening its solar panels and other instruments and is performing as expected.
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It's also expected to identify over 100,000 planets orbiting other stars.
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For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne.
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There's something wrong with the plumbing in Cincinnati.
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Billions of gallons of raw
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on the hunt for dark matter, dark energy, and planets outside our own solar system.
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Astronomers believe dark matter is the glue that holds galaxies together, and dark energy is responsible for our universe's rapid expansion.
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Observations from the Roman telescope should help scientists better understand them, and what they find could change how we understand the cosmos.
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Scientists also hope to discover over 100,000 exoplanets.
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Planets outside our own solar system.
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Once operational, Roman will beam back over one terabyte of data per day.
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For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
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The Roman Space Telescope hitched a ride on a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket, launching the eighteen thousand pound telescope that's about the size of a tour bus.
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