Watch: Astrophotographer captures Roman telescope flying in space to its new home

A faint moving dot crossing the night sky may not look like much. But one such dot recently turned out to be Nasa's newest Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, speeding towards its new home nearly 1.6 million kilometres from Earth.Arizona-based astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in a timelapse video just days after its launch.McCarthy later shared the footage on September 8, asking viewers if they could spot Roman moving across the sky.He later circled the tiny moving object and pointed out several other bodies visible in the frame.WHAT IS THE NANCY GRACE ROMAN SPACE TELESCOPE?Officially called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the observatory is named after Nancy Grace Roman, Nasa's first chief astronomer and a key figure in the agency's space astronomy programme.Roman is designed to investigate some of the biggest questions in astronomy, including the nature of dark matter and dark energy, while…