NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has left Earth, but it'll be a while before it starts its highly anticipated science mission. Here are the next steps.

Here's what to know about the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, as well as what's next for NASA's latest astronomical observatory.

After a flawless launch, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a mission to solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries

Roman is "NASA's latest and greatest cosmic cartographer," The New York Times said. Set to send back a "whopping one terabyte of data each day," the telescope "promises a panorama so wide and so crisp that it would take more than half a million high-definition TVs to display in full.